A Counterintuitive Guide to Dealing With Negative Emotions

You have to embrace them before they will go away.

Photo by Nadine Shaabana on Unsplash

A friend of mine video-called me yesterday. She is going through a breakup at the moment, so she wasn’t exactly in the best mood. At one point, she started to cry. The moment the tears started rolling down her face, she turned the phone camera away, pulled herself together and then…