Feelings

I've taught about feelings a lot on the podcast but today I'm teaching something I haven't taught before. Emotional health doesn't happen by accident, it requires our intention and learning how to pro

Our emotions and behaviors can affect each other positively or negatively. We call this emotional contagion and it turns out that it's pretty normal to be affected by others mood, facial expressions a

If you work with animals, you've chosen a highly emotional field and if you don't learn how to feel and process your emotions, you will suffer greatly. I don't want you to suffer. Most of us don't kno

Shame just might be the most uncomfortable emotion to feel because it comes from thinking that who we are is bad or wrong. And shame loves to hide in silence and secrecy which makes it feel even furth

We all carry around with us emotional wounds from our past. Childhood traumas when we didn't have the tools and/or support to be able to process the emotions we were feeling at the time.  If these iss

Many of the animal workers I meet feel overwhelmed. Veterinarians, vet techs, animal welfare workers all finding themselves with too much to do and what feels like not enough time to do it all. Overwh