There’s a video clip from ‘Inside Out’ that I often use to show the different purposes of our emotions and it ends on the question of why...

We’re quick to dismiss our emotions, to push them away and to judge them. This post follows a closer look at anxiety which you can read...

This is the first in a series of posts about getting to know some frequently experienced emotions more intimately. We use language for...

The final post in this series is focused on emotional expression. This is another challenging part of regulating emotions that requires...

We looked at an overview of emotions here so now it's time to start exploring what to do with them! Have you ever been told that you need to learn how to control your emotions? Or that you feel ‘too much’? Me too. The problem with these types of messages is that they never tell us how to manage our emotions and are often about other people’s discomfort with our feelings. Emotional regulation refers to our ability to exert control over our emotions. We all have strategies f

Anxiety, depression, anger… we spend a lot of time looking at emotions separately, but we often do this before having a basic understanding of emotions as a whole. Knowledge of what emotions are, their believed purpose and our beliefs about them can be helpful. So, let’s take a look at emotions… What is an emotion? Even this is not a straightforward question to answer! There are lots of definitions floating around and theories about ‘primary’ emotions but I’m not going to bor