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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...
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Ora Nadrich
- Aug 1
- 2 min
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
- Jul 1
- 3 min
How to Release Built-up Emotional Energy
Bottling up our emotions is not only unhealthy; it’s unnatural. Unfortunately, modern society has conditioned us to believe that normal...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
- May 1
- 5 min
What Causes Test Anxiety and How Emotional Intelligence Can Help
If you are a parent whose child suffers from test anxiety, or you are a student who knows firsthand the crippling feelings of overwhelm...
Alyssa Poggioli
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Signs You Need More Emotional Resilience and How to Self-Regulate
As children, we are encouraged to ‘be resilient,’ but what does that mean? Resilience is one’s ability to recover quickly from...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
- Feb 1
- 2 min
5 Techniques to Override Our Primal Impulse to Defend and Protect our Ego
There are various techniques to lessen the chance of getting into a fiery argument and taking control of our emotions. And while they may...
Lisa Medley
- Dec 31
- 3 min
What is Emotional Hijacking, and How Can You Prevent It?
Can you correctly identify the emotions you have experienced within the last 24 hours? Research conducted by Talent Smart – one of the...
Alyssa Poggioli
- Dec 31
- 5 min
3 Things Childhood Taught Me About the Value of Emotional Intelligence and Relationships
Emotional intelligence (EI or EQ) plays an essential role in maintaining healthy relationships, whether personal, professional, or...
Anna Keil
- Dec 31
- 4 min
4 Steps to Increase Self-Awareness and 12 Strategies to Help You Self-Regulate
In life, we can either respond like a thermometer—yielding to our environment—or take a more active role like a thermostat—creating an...
Doni Landefeld, Ph.D.
- Dec 31
- 5 min
3 Emotional Intelligence Skills to Boost Your Resilience for Challenging Times and How to Build Them
If you saw the Disney Pixar movie WALL-E, you might remember the little plant that grew from a seedling after toxin levels dropped on an...
Brittney-Nichole Connor-Savarda
- Dec 30, 2021
- 4 min
How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Follow Through with Your New Year's Resolutions
Here we are again, a new year. That means we are 'determined' to grow into a new and better version of ourselves for many of us. "This...