Feeling Hostile: A Guide to Your Emotions
When we’re feeling hostile, we just don’t want to talk to people, be around them, or even have them near us. That’s totally fine and completely normal. We can’t be a glorious welcome basket of a person all the time! Sometimes we’re put into situations where our social battery is at 0% and our politeness […]
12 Ways a Toxic Workplace Can Impact Your Mental Health
Beeeeep. Beeeep. Beeeep. The obnoxious screaming of your alarm each and every morning is your least favourite sound in the ENTIRE world! It sends a shiver up your spine, you’re filled with dread, and any motivation you might’ve had before it rang has completely disappeared. By the time you have to head out the door, […]
Feeling Powerful: A Guide to Your Emotions
There’s no feeling quite like feeling powerful. It makes you feel bold, confident and motivated. It feels like YOU are in control of your life, and no one else. You stand a little taller and carry yourself like the strong, capable person you believe you are (and we love to see it!). Being powerful doesn’t […]
Building Healthy Relationships: 5 Tips for Queer Folks
Communication, respect, and trust are important in every relationship. But, for those under the LGBTQIA2S+ umbrella, there is a bit more to take into account! Building healthy relationships isn’t always straight-forward and it doesn’t always come easy but it’s SO worth it to try and get it right. Queer folks experience the same amount of […]
How to Create a Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Youth in Your Classroom
There has been increasing acceptance of the LGBTQIA2S+ community in recent years. All of us at DiveThru are Millenials and Gen Z, and even we don’t even remember having a totally inclusive curriculum, or classroom space, for LGBTQ+ youth when we were in school. Thankfully there is more societal acceptance and recognition of people in […]
Feeling Selfish: A Guide to Your Emotions
Nobody wants to be seen as a selfish person, right? Selfishness has a lot of negative connotations, after all! People who are viewed as selfish put their needs before the needs of others and don’t seem to care much for anyone’s feelings but their own. Maybe they want all the glory and recognition for themselves […]
Feeling Excited: A Guide to Your Emotions
I’m so excited! And I just can’t hide it! The 80s jam from The Pointer Sisters gets this feeling sooo right. ‘Cause when we’re feeling excited, we’re upbeat! We’re a ball of energy! We can’t! Stop using! Exclamation points! Excitement usually comes from anticipating something that we are really looking forward to and makes us […]
What Is the Feelings Wheel + How to Use It
You might have read the title and thought, “What the heck is a feelings wheel?” Sadly, it’s not part of a game where you spin an arrow and then act out the feeling that it lands on. That does sound like a fun version of charades, though. The feelings wheel is a wheel used to […]