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How to Use Your Emotional Triggers for Growth
Are you someone who gets easily frustrated because you feel like you're getting tripped up by the same things over and over again? Learn how to check in with yourself and use your emotional triggers for personal growth.
How Anger Heals: Harnessing Its Healing Power
I had the pleasure of being interviewed for The Highly Sensitive Podcast. We talked about honoring our boundaries, protecting our energy with self care tools for Highly Sensitive People, and our experiences as HSPs.
How to Grow in Empathy in Your Relationships
Seeing a loved one in emotional distress can be just as difficult as swimming in the emotions yourself. Which of the 8 reactions do you tend to have when your loved one is going through a lot? Read more to exercise your empathy muscle!
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!
Radical Candor: Balancing Regard for Self and Others
Do you feel like your needs don’t matter, despite how much you do for others? Learn how to move towards Radical Candor, a relationship stance that creates room in the relationship big enough for both yourself and others.
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!
Build Self-esteem with a Fuck-it List
A “Fuck-it List” is a list of things you WANT to do but you never felt you had the PERMISSION to do it. Here’s how this list can actually help you become more grounded and whole!
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!
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!
3 Quick Exercises for HSPs to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions
Highly Sensitive Persons tend to absorb other people’s emotions, pain, and responsibilities, creating a whole lot of problems. Read more about how to grow beyond being an emotional sponge!
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.
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.
The BIG 5 Emotions: MAD, SAD, GLAD, SCARED, NUMB
Emotions can tell us a lot about our NEEDS and how we can go about meeting them - either ourselves, through others, for others. Learn more about the meaning of the BIG FIVE emotions of MAD, SAD, GLAD, SCARED, and NUMB.