Tag: Trauma

• June 16, 2011

  The Difference Between Your Brain and Your Mind

  Why do we keep repeating the same emotional patterns? Why do certain situations — an argument, a financial stress, a moment of intimacy — pull us back into feelings that…

• June 12, 2011

  You Choose Where Your Energy Goes

  Every day you make hundreds of small decisions about where to place your attention, your time, and your emotional investment. Most of us make those decisions on autopilot — reacting…

• June 11, 2011

  What Emotional Transference Does to Your Relationships

  One of the most subtle ways we sabotage our present happiness is by dragging past pain into today’s relationships. We do not always do it intentionally — in fact, we…

• June 9, 2011

  How Other People’s Pain Can Trigger Your Own

  Have you ever ended a conversation feeling worse than when it started, even though nothing in your own life changed? That unsettling shift may not be a sign that something…

• June 2, 2010

  Getting Others’ Approval to Get Your Own

  Guilt is one of the most familiar feelings in the human emotional vocabulary — and one of the most misunderstood. Most people treat guilt as either a signal to be…