acceptance, emotional pain, mind-body connection, mindfulness, pain, personal growth, relationships, resilience, stress, suffering
Everyone encounters suffering or pain at various points in their lives. This may be physical, emotional, or psychological, and it’s expected to want to resist it and find ways to escape it. But the key to overcoming pain may be to accept it instead of resisting it. Leslie Becker-Phelps, an acclaimed psychologist and author, has ...
As anyone who has experienced it firsthand can attest, despair is a fearsome foe. It drains our energy and motivation, tells us that we are unworthy of happiness, and threatens to engulf us. Despair is the kind of emotional pain that feels impossible to escape from. And yet, somehow, people do find their way out ...
