Emotions

Is it your best idea? — Writing from anger and frustration can be a powerful tool for self-expression and catharsis. It is also a way to process and make sense of your emotions, and to communicate your feelings to others. Writing when feeling this way allows you to get your thoughts and feelings out of your…

Make Peace With Your Difficult Emotions “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks What emotions do you repeatedly struggle with? It is anger, shame, anxiety, fear or others? These past two years have been like no other, that exposed our negative emotions. However, if we…

The odd feeling when coworkers are laid off — Last week, Amazon completed the second round of role reductions and laid off 18,000 employees. The first round was much smaller and focused on teams that were distant from our function, so it did not register for my group emotionally. We believed this round would be the same; however, Wednesday…

This is my addition of something you don’t know about me — I’m haunted by the fact that crying doesn’t come easily for me and I sometimes wonder what that means. Is it a sign that I’m not empathetic, or that I have little sympathy for others? Or could it be I have a cold heart? I don’t think that’s the case…