Managing your emotions doesn’t mean suppressing them—it means understanding what you’re feeling, where it’s coming from, and how to respond without letting your reactions run the show. It’s one of ...

You know that feeling when everything hits you at once and your emotional thermostat just breaks? One minute you’re handling life like a reasonable adult, and the next minute you’re either crying in a ...

If meditation or journaling doesn't work for you, you're not alone. Psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross offers dozens of tools to help people manage their emotions more effectively. Ethan ...

Regret is a powerful feeling. Used in the right way, it can serve as a tool to help you make smarter decisions and avoid repeating harmful mistakes. But what if you could prevent regret in the first ...

Sometimes you can just change them, the psychologist Ethan Kross argues in his new book, “Shift.” By Jancee Dunn Emotions are a fundamental part of what make us human. They can be overwhelming, ...

In my previous post "A Love Hate Relationship" I discussed how most self-sabotaging behaviors have both positive and negative influences that drive them. In this post I'm going to talk about a major ...

Ethan Kross’s grandmother, Dora Kremin, survived the horrors of the Holocaust by staying one step ahead of the Nazis, finding refuge in the bitter cold forest, begging for shelter from strangers and ...

Ethan Kross always shared a special bond with his grandmother, Dora, whom he considered a “second mom”. She lived just a few blocks away from his childhood home, and when he came by each day after ...