5 Steps to Healthy Emotional Boundaries With Our Friends
Are you familiar with the term emotional boundaries, KALMers? Let’s think for a bit: have you ever felt like your friends’ problems are your problems? They tell you about all the negative things in their lives like their annoying...
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When He Broke My Heart
When he left me with a heartbreak. The world turns dark as if the sun turned its face away. My hollowed chest still bleeds after his presence was ripped away from my heart The happy chitter chatter of my...
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Chasing Happiness
Happiness is felt when we receive or experience things that are good. Variations: enthusiastic, interested, determined, excited, amused, inspired, alert, active, strong, proud, attentive, happy, relaxed, cheerful, at ease, calm. Benefits: Good for physical and mental health, and interpersonal relationships. Potential...
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Sadness to the Rescue!
Sadness is felt when we experience a loss. Variations: Grief, disappointment, pity Benefits: Makes us appreciate good times and simple pleasures. Potential Pitfalls: When experienced for long periods of time, and goes unexpressed or unprocessed, it may develop into depression....
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Anger: Engine for Change
Anger: An emotion that is felt when we perceive that we are being attacked, threatened, or treated unfairly. Variation: annoyed, impatient, furious Strengths: Helps us understand our limits, and push us to find solutions to our interpersonal conflicts. Drawbacks:...
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Emotions are Healthy
Hi KALMers, have you ever been blamed, or blame yourself for having a certain emotion: angry, sad, or even happy? Have you ever been asked, or asked someone, “Why do you have to be so emotional? We seem to...
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