Emotions

Do you feel like you're failing as a mom? Are you plagued by a sense of inadequacy and feel like you're constantly missing the mark?These feelings describe mom guilt—a surprisingly common experience...

Are you facing a great loss? Perhaps a loved one or close friend has died. Great love brings great sorrow, and healthy sorrow recognizes the immensity of loss. But when death and loss come close,...

If you have been in a dark or desperate place, you already know that the best kind of friend sits with your pain and listens. What does it take to be a compassionate, helping friend when those you...

Grief is overwhelming, especially for children, who do not naturally know how to respond to loss. They need help to express the sadness, fear, and anger that comes after encountering death...

Anxiety is the number one mental health issue facing people today, and teens are not exempt. The causes are many school pressures, relationship struggles, social media issues and the results can be...

It's only natural to bristle when you are mistreated. Perhaps you were passed over for a well-deserved job promotion, hurt by a family member, falsely accused, or experienced a severe disappointment...

When your child faces the loss of someone close, their world no longer feels safe. Grief and its aftermath take us all by surprise, but even more so children, who don't have the words or tools to...

Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling...

Do you ever get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach in anticipation of something you don't want to face? This sense of foreboding and apprehension is called dread. It could be about an...

¿Alguna vez sientes que tu pasado te persigue? Tal vez se trate de un error que cometiste y que no se puede corregir, o de algo que te hicieron y que es imposible deshacer. Ves a diario los efectos...

Sin importar las circunstancias, la muerte nos sacude hasta el fondo del alma. Nos parece tan mal—¡y lo es! Deseamos consuelo, pero no sabemos dónde buscarlo. ¿Puede Dios realmente ayudar cuando...

Perdonar a alguien que te ha herido es una de las tareas más difíciles que una persona puede enfrentar. Es más, es tan difícil que la mayoría de la gente la evita a toda costa. Pero cuando no...

¿Qué le hace enojar? A veces son cosas pequeñas: atascos de tráfico, un error del camarero, o la falta de atención de un amigo. Y a veces son cosas grandes: la traición, la injusticia, la mala...

Si usted tiene un hijo enojado, lo más probable es que usted esté agotado, confundido y en busca de respuestas a preguntas como éstas: "¿Cómo puedo restaurar la cordura a este caos?""¿Cómo puedo...