When an emotion arises, how do you usually respond? For many, suppression and analysis are the default, but truly processing emotions is key to healing and stronger connections. Most of us were never ...

Recently, a client sat across from me, tense and frustrated: “I meditate, I journal, I try to reframe my thoughts, but this anxiety and brain fog won’t go away. What am I missing?” I’ve heard versions ...

As the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, I recently warned that we are facing an overreaction epidemic. The response to my warning has been, perhaps predictably, extreme.

Emotions are powerful, complex, and necessary. In fact, it's often emotions that keep us alive. That feeling of fear you get when you see a snake is an emotion, and it comes from the part of the brain ...

Do you build tall emotional walls? Or do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Take this test to find out how you guard the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

What is your relationship with your emotions on a daily basis? Some of us might deny that we’re influenced by our feelings at all. Others might try to leave our emotions behind when we move into ...

Can you see yourself in one of these scenarios, or a similar one? If so, you’re spending what’s called “emotional labor.” What is emotional labor? How does it affect you and your people? And how can ...

When Leonardo DiCaprio, who was born in 1974, made headlines this week for joking in an interview with Esquire that he “turned emotionally 35 last year,” I was reminded of the wide gulf in emotional ...