Pain is something we all experience, but for children, understanding and navigating it can be particularly challenging. Whether it’s physical pain from a bruised knee or the emotional sting of a ...

Pain is something we all experience, but for children, understanding and navigating it can be particularly challenging. Whether it’s physical pain from a bruised knee or the emotional sting of a ...

Avoiding pain may provide short-term relief, but in the long term, it costs us. Emotional energy doesn’t just disappear. When ...

Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior where one person repeatedly subjects another to non-physical acts of aggression or ...

Why on earth would someone purposely want to cut his or herself? As odd as this might seem to many of us, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), such as cutting, burning, or intensely scratching oneself ...

Learning how to regulate negative emotions like anxiety could ease chronic pain. Scientists have found that a form of therapy that partly focuses on tolerating distress relieved ongoing discomfort ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Are you in a relationship with a toxic empath or a narcissist? How can you tell the difference? While both toxic empaths ...

Big changes, even positive ones, can leave you full of questions and anxious about what’s next. But sometimes, that change is just what you need.

Six months before Diana’s* marriage exploded in flames, her friend Vanessa* fell in love. “We were both in our mid-40s at the time,” says Diana, 57. “Vanessa was desperate for me to meet her new man, ...

There has been a big change in your world, many things are now in question, and you are wondering what is to become of your life. Big changes, even very ...

For some people, swearing provides a healthy outlet for frustration and can make period pain feel less overwhelming, ...