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What's the Difference Between Emotions, Feelings, and Mood?
Moods, feelings, and emotions are often used interchangeably, but there are important distinctions between them. While they all have to...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Mar 1, 20233 min read


The Heart-Mind Connection: How Your Heart Plays into How You Feel
Have you ever felt your heart sink when you've received bad news or experienced a moment of joy so deep it traced through your chest? It...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Mar 1, 20232 min read


Identifying a Victim Mentality and Cultivating a Growth Mindset
It is easy to become trapped in a state of helplessness and victimization while living in the modern world, where we may believe that our...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Early Warning Signs: How to Avoid Being Emotionally Hijacked
Have you ever felt like your emotions were controlling you instead of the other way around? For example, maybe you were having a...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Name-calling: A Sign of Low Emotional Intelligence
It's easy to be dismissive and judgmental when you don't understand someone else's perspective. But when we do this, it's a sign that our...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Jan 1, 20234 min read


Are Unaddressed Emotions Making You Ill?
What is Psychoneuroimmunology? Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI for short) studies how the mind, nervous, endocrine, and immune systems work...

Dr. Erica Steele
Nov 1, 20225 min read


How Dopamine Detoxing Can Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence
In our fast-paced, constantly-connected world, it's more important than ever to have strong emotional intelligence. Whether we're trying...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Nov 1, 20223 min read


What is Psychological Child Abuse, and How can Emotional Intelligence Help Us Heal?
The effects are the same regardless of whether a child experiences physical or psychological abuse. Both wear down a child's sense of...

Danielle Dellaquila
Oct 1, 20223 min read


Emotional Eating: What Is It and How to Control It
Emotional eating is eating in response to how we're feeling instead of our physical hunger. It's most commonly used as a coping mechanism...

Jennifer Olejarz
Sep 1, 20223 min read


What Causes Us to Feel Anger?
Anger is a complex emotion that serves several important functions. It is the primary emotion that is frequently triggered when we...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Sep 1, 20225 min read


What Causes Us to Feel Resistance?
Resistance is a powerful, invisible, and internal force that can paralyze us from pursuing our dreams, taking healthy risks, and living a...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Aug 1, 20225 min read


Emotional Projection: What It Can Tell You About Yourself and Others
Projection: is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. Many of us perceive others as we...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Aug 1, 20224 min read


Why Do We Gravitate Towards Negativity?
For many of us, our default is to focus on problems. Even when we receive a flood of accolades, a single negative comment can become the...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
Aug 1, 20222 min read
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