What strategies do you use to process your painful emotions? Can you label them? Do you know what sadness feels like? Do you know how fear feels? What does anger do to your insides? Sad, mad, glad, and fear. Those are often considered the four basic categories of emotions. Labeling is the first step. A …
Category Archives: Emotional Health
Bonus Post Today; Guest Post Friday
"A Safe Lap" is today’s guest post at Pearl Girls: http://margaretmcsweeney.blogspot.com/2009/12/guest-blogger-karen-rabbitt.html On Friday, Elisabeth Corcoran, author of He Is Just That Into You, will be my guest poster. See more info about her book here: Website http://www.elisabethcorcoran.com Blog http://elisabethcorcoran.blogspot.com
A Useful “Why?”
When serious suffering penetrates our hearts, we often ask God, “Why?” Why did I lose my job? Why am I not married? Why did my child die of cancer? Why did my wife walk out? Why did my father leave? As an ultimate question, it’s unanswerable. However, “why” produces insight when we ask it in …