Tag: Emotional

Here’s the sad truth that applies to 95% of you who teach Social-Emotional learning (SEL) techniques in your classroom. You are doing it all wrong! Not only that, but every resource you have used or given to you by your district has it all wrong, too. Why? Because most people who c...

In plain language, the ability to “look within”, or perceive our internal experiences, make sense of them for ourselves, then describe them to others in a way they can understand. The foundation for introspection or surveying our internal feelings is interoception: the abili...

My mother used to cook a dish made by stewing lamb chops with vegetables until it all became a grayish-brown slop. The ingredients were indistinguishable, their color and flavor long gone. I hated it. My heart would sink when I learned that was to be the evening meal. The most I could hope for wa...

ADHD tends to be synonymous with inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Yet for many people with ADHD, the biggest impact is in the area of emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is a major dimension of executive functioning, the mechanism in the brain normally associated with attention,...

Of all my emotional battles, from quietly dealing with schizophrenia to being drowned in my empathy, none has been as brutal as my conflict over how I identify myself. I was raised in a chaotic environment. I spent half my time under the watch of my hellfire Baptist grandfather and the other half...

Scene: A conference room in a global company, somewhere in the city, remote and on-site in the same time. The Head of Department XY, a woman, speaks assertively during a meeting about work progress, tasks and other work related thigs. The room goes silent as a male colleague responds, accusing her o...

I moved to San Francisco in 1990, the same year that President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). At the time, seeing a non-human mammal in a restaurant or street car was an anomaly. In the three decades since then, our urban landscapes have changed dramatically. We now co...

Love and hate and an entire array of feelings, passions, and sensibilities all reflect what we classify as emotions. To function in the world, you must understand, integrate, and express these feelings. Your ability to be in touch with and express emotion plays a large part in the types of choices y...