The Purpose of Pain

The Purpose of Pain

Pain is a four-letter word that no one likes. The only problem is that if we didn’t have pain, we wouldn’t have survived. Both our physical pain reflexes and our painful, so-called “negative” emotions like fear and sadness serve to protect us from even bigger...
Embrace Emotion!

Embrace Emotion!

While we crave drama in our movies, most of us do our best to edit it out of the script at home. If we didn’t, we’d be too “___________” (fill-in-the-blank). I believe that this tendency to embrace emotion as a spectator while rejecting it as a participant points to a...