Tag: managing emotions during divorce
Don’t Eat That Cookie! Are You Healing or Avoiding?
When you were young did your mother use to say, “Don’t cry. Here, have a cookie and you’ll feel better”? And you ate the cookie, got distracted and yes, you did actually feel a bit better… for ten minutes. Then the pain came back, and it was time for another cookie. Does this sound at all familiar? […]
The Danger of Suppression: Don’t Bottle Up Your Emotions
Any serious scientist will be familiar with the assertion that stress causes a compromised immune system. A recent study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health has finally put this long-held knowledge into perspective, deciphering that those who bottle up their feelings have a cardiovascular disease risk of 140 percent and a risk of […]
