As our nation faces demonstrations, both peaceful and non-peaceful, divisive rhetoric, and the Covid-19 pandemic, many emotions are being stirred up in each of us. In my previous blogs, I addressed the emotion of anxiety; in this article, I begin addressing the emotion of ANGER.
This article is the third post, in a series dealing with the emotion of anxiety. In the first post “Is Anxiety an Emotion?”, I explained the difference between the two types of anxiety: “Healthy” and “Toxic,” and in the second post “Is Fear Anxiety?” I introduced the “what if” game. This article is going to …
Tips to Manage Anxiety – Stop the “WHAT IF” Game! Read More »
The answer to that question depends on who you ask and on how the two phrases are defined. Like many words in the English language certain words can be used in a variety of ways and mean different things. Fear is one of these types of words. So, from this writer’s perspective, the answer can …
Many people wonder if anxiety is an emotion? If you have read my previous post, “What is the Purpose of Emotions?” you would know that I presented the idea that the purpose of emotions is “to alert us to the fact that something is “off” in our emotional world.” Using this understanding of the …
You’re here because you’re wondering what the purpose of emotions is, why do we have these feelings, both good and bad, that significantly affect our lives? For most of us, experiencing the emotions we consider positive isn’t the issue, we like those. Where we struggle is with the emotions that don’t feel good and …
