emotions

Helping Children Embrace Big Emotions - Mindful What we wish most for our children is that they may be happy. When facing times of crisis, or simply life’s regular ups and downs, what can we do to support our children’s search for sustainable happiness? I can clearly remember sitting in a...

Dropping anchor on big emotions- Harvard Health Big emotions can be scary. Anxiety, sadness, anger, and many other strong emotions can quickly engage the body’s fight-or-flight mechanism. That’s true for adults, and certainly true for children who are just learning about their emotions and how...

Better Control of Your Emotions Will Help You Create Better Habits - Time One reason our resolutions don’t last, our diets don’t work, and our resolves weaken is because sustaining motivation is hard. And that’s not your fault. In my new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change...

What You Eat Can Make You Happier - Consumer Reports A growing number of studies suggest that food choices may have an effect on your emotions Years of research have demonstrated that a healthy diet can help cut the risks of illnesses, from diabetes to some cancers. Now, more and more studies...

United by feelings - Aeon Charles Darwin closed his On the Origin of Species (1870) with a provocative promise that ‘light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history’. In his later books The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), Darwin shed...

When Are You Most Likely to Catch Other People’s Emotions? - Greater Good Researchers discovered an important factor that influences how contagious emotions are. In a new study, Stanford psychologists examined why some people respond differently to an upsetting situation and learned that...

Eating pizza, burgers and chips may cause saturated fat to 'seep into the brain through your bloodstream and trigger depression' - Daily Mail Scientists say dietary fat enters brain and clogs up part that controls emotions Once there it affects hypothalamus, leading to increase in depressive...