Feeling Fearful: A Guide to Your Emotions
Sometimes when we think of the word ‘fear’ and what it means to be feeling fearful, the classic horror movie tropes come to mind. Like when the main character is walking down the basement stairs in pitch darkness, the music gets super intense, and the whole time you’re yelling at the TV: “NOOO! DON’T GO […]
Feeling Ashamed: A Guide to Your Emotions
Feeling ashamed? Yeah, it sucks. Even the word SHAAAME feels like a big, grey cloud over your head that follows you around wherever you go. It weighs you down, reminding you of all the ways you believe you’re undeserving of love or happiness. Sometimes, it can make you feel like you just wanna be invisible. […]
Feeling Jealous: A Guide to Your Emotions
Feeling jealous can be really tough to manage, even though it’s totally normal and everyone experiences this feeling at some point! But admitting you’re jealous? HA, yeahhh right… not in this lifetime! It can be super embarrassing and even shameful to admit to ourselves (let alone anyone else) when we’re feeling jealous. You might be […]
Feeling Frustrated: A Guide to Your Emotions
If we could sum up feeling frustrated in one word, it would probably sound something like this: *screeching* UUURGGGHHHHasdbfygscveewk. And if we could also put an action to the word, it would probably look like banging your head on your desk (repeatedly). Yeppp, we all know the feeling very well. No matter what you do, […]
Feeling Thankful: A Guide to Your Emotions
Okay, we gotta admit — being thankful is a pretty great feeling to have. Whether we’re having a bad day or the BEST DAY EVER, it’s nice to pause from time to time and think about what we’re thankful for. It reminds us of all the simple things that bring us joy and peace, even […]
Feeling Angry: A Guide to Your Emotions
Think of a tea kettle on a stove (hear us out, all of you electric kettle users – the metaphor still works!). The hotter the water becomes, the closer it gets to boiling. Anger is a lot like that. When we sit on these angry feelings for a while, eventually we get to a boiling […]
8 Ways to Teach Consent at an Early Age
Don’t you wish that you had been given an option to simply high-five your mom’s great-great-uncle at that family reunion when you were 6? Instead, your mom made you go in for a hug, and it felt wrong and weird. After all, you had just met this person! Now, years later, you’re thinking that might’ve […]
Why Gender Pronouns in Email Signatures Are Important
Who’s ready for a little grammar class? Anyone? No one? Don’t worry, we’ll start slow with an introduction to gender pronouns. So, what is a pronoun? It’s basically a substitute for a noun. In this case, the nouns we are going to be substituting are people’s names. Common pronouns, and the ones we are going […]