Anger doesn’t feel helpless. It doesn’t feel powerless. It feels active, directed, consequential, at least in the moment under these conditions. There is a rush of adrenaline. I am an actor, not a side-character.

Some see a learned defense mechanism as a sign of resilience... it feels more like resignation.

Just like for most people, I had learned how to act and interact with others through observation. Our young minds scour the environment...

Sometimes, we find ourselves experiencing a mood or a combination of emotions that maybe alter our behaviors, our perceptions, our...

As I sat in the audience of an apostolic conference on mental health, my mind was a bit preoccupied by a tragic event that happened...

I sometimes feel a bit paralyzed trying to conjure up the feeling of joy. I’m not saying that I don’t experience it, but for me, it is...

Why knocking on my childhood door goes wrong…                Searching to find and comfort your inner child as a form of understanding,...

Have you ever lived through something that turns out to have very little to no information at all in your memory? Why is this? Perhaps,...

We are emotional creatures with feelings, opinions and moods about ourselves, others and the events that happen in between. They inform...