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Your emotions is a messenger not the enemy

What Your Emotions Are Trying to Tell You Your emotions are not always the problem. Sometimes they are the message. We have been taught, in so many different ways, to control our emotions. We are told to calm down when we are angry. To move on when we are grieving. To stop being jealous. To …

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Why Do We Feel Emotion? The Great Human Question

There is an age-old question that every human being, in one way or another, has encountered: Why do we feel emotion? Why can emotion be so complex, so disturbing, so revealing? Why can it be destructive one moment and beautiful the next? Why can it bring us extraordinary joy, yet also cause some of the …

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When that emotional reserve is exhausted, the relationship often changes dramatically.

Every healthy relationship is sustained by an emotional reserve—a store of love, trust, respect, kindness, compassion, patience, and goodwill. You can think of it as an emotional bank account. Every act of honesty, appreciation, forgiveness, and support makes a deposit. Every insult, betrayal, manipulation, criticism, contempt, or act of disrespect makes a withdrawal. When the …

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Get Clarity Into Your Emotions With the Emotion Wheel

Positive and negative unless you are a robot your emotions fit somewhere in between. As I get older I am constantly checking in asking myself why I feel one way or another. I truly feel before you can address your emotions, you first need to understand them. That’s exactly what the emotional wheel is designed …