acceptance, emotional pain, mind-body connection, mindfulness, pain, personal growth, relationships, resilience, stress, suffering

How Accepting Pain Can Improve Your Emotional Well-Being

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 ...

Nathan Machoka

A woman suffering emotional pain.

How to Suffer Properly

A strange question, indeed. What does it mean to suffer properly? Does this question justify suffering? No one likes to suffer, right? So why would you even think of doing it properly? We don’t want to do it at all! End of story. But is it? Is it you who decides your suffering? Think about ...

Emma Lu

A sad woman.