Children have big feelings, and sometimes they are difficult to manage. In If You're Angry and You Know It, Go Outside, Mara is struggling with the death of her beloved dog and trying to deal with anger, sadness, and loss. Written simply for young children and illustrated with vibrant colors to reflect the range of Mara's emotions, this book ......
The question of whether emotion-focused skills is an inborn talent or can be acquired through learning is an intriguing one. On Becoming Emotion Focused attempts to answer that question - whether such attunement is a product of nature (implicit learning) or nurture (explicit learning) while also illustrating, through the unraveling of the author's ......
How Acknowledging, Understanding, and Regulating Your Feelings Can Improve Your Mental Health
A practical, engaging resource that offers a clearer understanding of the science of emotion and a helpful path forward in regulating your emotions. Rates of anxiety and depression are high and continue to rise. Substance use and associated overdose deaths constitute a public health emergency, and many people suffer consequences from exposure ......
North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms-violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation-the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the ......
North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms-violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation-the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the ......
Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History from the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland Shortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum Finalist for the 2024 Sterling Stuckey Book ......
Often dismissed as escapism, screen musicals of the 1960s in fact tapped into unspoken sadness about an America that was slipping away. Jake Johnson delves into film and television musicals of the era to examine their place in networks of grieving in America, for America, and about America. The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as ......
Often dismissed as escapism, screen musicals of the 1960s in fact tapped into unspoken sadness about an America that was slipping away. Jake Johnson delves into film and television musicals of the era to examine their place in networks of grieving in America, for America, and about America. The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as ......
