Dear Reader,
 
My goal is to provide emotions education. There are profound benefits to understanding what emotions really are and how they affect our minds, brains, and bodies. Emotions influence us every day, whether we are aware of them or not. That's why it makes perfect sense for all of us to receive a basic emotions education—just as we learn our ABCs and multiplication tables. Understanding how emotions work is a fundamental life skill that can improve our well-being, relationships, and resilience.
 
We live in a culture that values thoughts and logic over emotions. But science has proven it is not healthy to tune out our emotions and we do not have to choose between our thoughts and our emotions. We can become aware of both and understand how thoughts and emotions work together to help us feel better or feel worse depending on how we work with them.
 
Emotions are very unique in their potential to cause traumatic stress and everyday distress. But what most people do not know, because we were never taught this in school, is that emotions are the doorway to healing our anxieties, depression, low self-esteem, and other mental health symptoms. Working with our emotions in very specific ways, which is what the Change Triangle tool for emotional health is all about, helps us manage daily life with more ease and helps us meet the challenges of our relationships.
 
Please use this site as a resource. My articles, blog, brief explanation of The Change Triangle tool for emotional health, videos, free Intro Emotions Curriculum, 8-module Turnkey Change Triangle Curriculum for Adults, Teen Curriculum, and the books, It's Not Always Depression, and Parents Have Feelings, Too, are resources to help you and others learn about emotions and how to work with them in the body to feel better. I always strive to use simple, jargon-free language with stories and little "experiments" to help bring the concepts to life. Thank you for visiting.

Warmly,
Hilary