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How to Handle MIXED Feelings
It’s totally possible to have more than one feeling at the same time (example: feeling bittersweet about moving out of state for a new job). Here are some ways to navigate mixed feelings!
The Emotional Experiences of the Marginalized
Explore how emotions show up for those who have marginalized or minority statuses - race, gender, sexuality, religion, SES, etc. Listen in to learn what emotions have to do with power and privilege!
Books About Emotions I Recommend
Here are my favorite books for different emotions (MAD, SAD, GLAD, SCARED, NUMB, SHAME), personal growth, relationships, and professional development!
How Do Feelings Work? (Highly Sensitive Podcast Interview)
Join me and Lauren LaSalle as we talk on her podcast, The Highly Sensitive Podcast, about how to do emotions along with tips for HSPs.
YOU MATTER, TOO! Reclaim Your Rightful Power and Smash the Shame Cage!
The last person to know that you’re WORTHY might be you!! Read more to learn how to tap into your best advocate: ANGER, the emotion of POWER and TRUTH.
The Power of Anger: 3 C's We Admire About It That Make Us BADASS, not BAD!
Use the fiery nature of anger to build CONFIDENCE, COMFORT, and COURAGE on behalf of yourself! Read more how ANGER helps us nurture these 3 C’s!
Stop Stuffing Anger! 3 Areas of Your Life That Take the Blow
The biggest mistake that Highly Sensitive Persons and women make is to bury our rightful anger!! Read more to learn 3 quick ways to honor yourself by learning from the powerful animal: the LION!
Breaking the #1 Myth About Anger: You Totally CAN Wield It Well!
The biggest myth about anger for Highly Sensitive Persons and others who are deeply empathic is that YOU CAN’T DO IT! Read more to discover what anger actually is and that you actually have more access to it than you think!
Cultivating Emotional Discernment with Your Top 2 + Bottom 2 Feelings
What are your Top 2 Feelings that show up more than they’re supposed to, and your Bottom 2 Feelings that don’t show up often enough? Use this Decision Tree to know what to do when a feeling shows up!
5 Steps to Process Your Feelings So They Don't Mess Up Your Life
Stuffing our feelings (thinking that it’ll make things better) only BACKFIRE. Learn what happens when you repress your emotions and the 5 steps to actually process them and free up your focus and energy!
What are Your 3 Rs to Keep You Emotionally Anchored?
Feeling overwhelmed, lost, or overwhelmed? The 3 Rs of Routines, Rhythms, & Rituals can soothe your frazzled nervous system and help your body settle into a smoother rest state.
The Five S's of Self-Care for HSPs
When you have a lot going on your nervous system can get overloaded. Learn about the five S’s of less to make it easier on yourself.
What is Alexithymia?
Alexithymia is the difficulty or inability to talk about, navigate through, or deal with emotions; Learn about two books that can help you know how to become emotionally healthy - the first one explores what sometimes causes alexithymia, and the second one will help you understand alexithymia in relationships.
3 Powerful Affirmations for Emotional Balance
Learn 3 quick affirmations that help you live life to the fullest while keeping emotional balance.
Resentment in Relationships is Your FRIEND
Resentment is not a BAD emotion, and it’s not an emotion that makes YOU bad. This emotion gives us a chance to shift our relationships so that there’s enough room for the BOTH of us.
Feeling Emotionally NUMB: The Emotion of Recentering
Are you feeling nothing? Or are you feeling emotionally NUMB? Emotional numbness says, “There is TOO MUCH.” Learn 4 ways to care for yourself by making things LESS.
Feeling SCARED: Fear as the Emotion of Sizing Up
Do your FEARS paralyze you or make you believe you’re less than capable of what lies ahead? Learn how to engage your MIND, HANDS, and HEART, and let the fourth emotion, FEAR, help you rise to challenge.
Feeling GLAD: The Emotion of Validation
Unlike the other BIG FIVE EMOTIONS, GLAD does not indicate a need we have. Instead, feeling GLAD tells us when a need is met, and the best way to respond is by CELEBRATING that and paying it forward.
Feeling SAD: Sadness as the Emotion of Mattering
Emotions indicate our needs, and SADNESS is no different. Though we feel sad about different things, the emotion tells us that something MATTERS to us. Something or someone we love is no longer present. Learn more about feeling SAD and what it means to experience this emotion.
Anger and Guilt: The Emotions of RESPONSIBILITY and REPAIR
Usually, ANGER and GUILT are thought of as bad emotions. But in reality (and when practiced healthily), these emotions can strengthen relationships and bring people closer through RESPONSIBILITY and REPAIR.