What are the Different Types of Emotions?
Natural emotions Most people experience a variety of emotions throughout their life. Most of these experienced emotions are in reaction to something; an event, a person, something gross, or something pleasant or comforting. Sometimes these emotions are intense and fleeting, and other times they stick around. When we have an immediate emotional response to something […]
How do people respond to trauma?
We tend to think of trauma as some big event that causes PTSD, including symptoms like nightmares and flashbacks. While these things are true, trauma and symptoms of trauma can be subtle or show up where they aren’t expected. A traumatic event is anything that happens in which a person is negatively impacted to the […]
Do Face Masks Affect our Ability to Understand Other’s Emotions?
It has been a few months now since face masks have been employed as a health control measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Some of us were a little slower to get into the habit, understandably forgetting our masks in our cars (or worse, at home), while others quickly got on board and adjusted […]
Guilt: The Emotion of Feeling Responsible
Feeling guilt is a completely normal emotional experience that everybody feels when they realize they have compromised their own standards or universal moral standards. When we think guilt, we think of a criminal being guilty, so what happens when we feel guilty, over something that feels huge, but may not actually need a guilty feeling […]
Some basics about art therapy
Art therapy has been around since the 1940’s, but has only recently begun to gain traction as a legitimate form of therapy in recent years. The term “art therapy” was coined by British artist Adrian Hill, who began to notice the emotional and possibly therapeutic benefits of art. The field began to grow in both […]
Time Management
First and foremost, are we talking about time management or procrastination? Procrastination is often thought of as an issue of time management, not an issue of emotion. However, in recent years it has been linked more to emotions than previously thought. A lack of ability to manage time, or a propensity towards procrastination generally stems […]
Challenge Thinking
Challenging your thinking can help you to become more aware of yourself, your biases and your beliefs as a person. But acknowledging and challenging your thinking can be difficult. While we mostly hear about challenging negative thoughts, it is important to be cognizant of positive and neutral thoughts as well. They make up who we […]
Dreams
If you have ever had a strange or interesting dream, there is a good chance that you have thought to yourself “what did that mean?”. Dream interpretation has been around since the origin of psychology and cannot be discussed without the inclusion of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Freudian psychoanalysis and dream interpretation emphasized the […]