Emotions

Having emotions doesn’t have to suck. — It’s happening again. Your skin prickles, blood rushing to your face before the inevitable arrives. Before you know it, words are spilling from your mouth uncontrollably. Your voice seems to rise on its own. How’d you become a slave to your feelings? You struggle to control your emotions for as…

To turn them around, learn how to boost your self-esteem — We all feel envy at times. An acquaintance gets a shiny new car, a colleague nets a promotion, or a close friend falls deeply in love. We notice. Envy passes through us for a moment. Then it’s gone. But for some, envy is not so simple. Envy in it’s more…

Either my heart is harder or they don’t make ‘em like they used to — The other night my youngest child came into my room, tears running down her face. “What’s the matter,” I said hurrying over to hug her. “He died, Old Dan died!” “Who?” “Billy’s dog. There was a mountain lion. And Little Ann was so sad that she laid down on his…

An unusual realization — If you’re reading this, I’m sure there has been a time when you’ve heard someone say “You only value something once it’s gone, it’s human nature!” While the advice is as real as it can get, I often wonder how far-reaching it really is? Because to tell you the truth…

Don’t fall for the theatrics. Emotional contagion is destroying the very fabric of our world… — by E.B. Johnson Do you ever look around in awe at the insanity around you? We are living through wild times, and it can feel like the very air is charged with emotion sometimes. That’s because we’re living at the height of emotional contagion. A torrential wave of ambiguous virtue…

Does your state of mind affect the way you write, how you write and what you write? What does it take for you to write and be the most creative? Do you need a quiet space? Or is your creativity at its greatest when you’ve just had an epiphany or…