Looking Inside a Case of the Fuck-Its If you’ve ever had a case of the fuck-its, you know they can be quite deadly. You’ve reached the end of your rope, sick of everything, tired of people, and sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. It’s easy to get self-destructive when you have the fuck-its.Continue reading “A Case of the Fuck-Its”
Category Archives: Field Guide to Feelings
Why Cats Should Fear Curiosity
Why Cats Should Fear Curiosity If you’re going to meet your feelings, the best feeling to meet first would be the one that can introduce you to the rest. It’s like when you go to a party. If you want to get to know everyone at the party, you should hang with the social butterfly,Continue reading “Why Cats Should Fear Curiosity”
How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part Two
How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part Two Acting Out and Sublimation In part one, I wrote about how your daughter can work her emotions into art. The first step is acting out. Acting out is a common phrase anyone would use to describe your daughter’s behavior in the firstContinue reading “How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part Two”
How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part One
How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part One Developing an Artistic Theory of Emotional Expression You could see it coming as soon as you told your teenage daughter she couldn’t go to the mall with her friends. First, her face frowned. She looked as though some pressure was building inside.Continue reading “How to Turn a Temper Tantrum into a Work of Art, Part One”
A Lazy Writer Tries Chat GPT
I don’t often feel lazy; but when I do, it’s enough to throw me into despair and self-reproach. I come from solid Puritan stock, you see, for whom idleness is akin to damnation. I was feeling damn lazy but, nonetheless, sat myself down and committed myself to writing like I do every day. I couldContinue reading “A Lazy Writer Tries Chat GPT”
Are Some Feelings More Real Than Others?
Some feelings can fake you out. That is, they don’t match the corresponding emotion. Let me tell you the difference between feelings and emotions. Feelings are conscious emotions. Emotions are subconscious feelings. If someone were to come up to me and tell me how much they loved my books, I would spontaneously stand a littleContinue reading “Are Some Feelings More Real Than Others?”
What are Feelings and When Should You Be in Touch?
Feelings are how you encounter your very existence. When you’re out of touch with your feelings, you’re out of touch with life. They’re how you meet joys and sorrows, ups and downs, and everything in between. They help you foster and navigate your relationships, make choices, and adapt a response to events. But sometimes, feelings areContinue reading “What are Feelings and When Should You Be in Touch?”
Can You Sort Out Your Feelings?
For as long as people have been having feelings, they’ve tried to understand them by sorting them out and classifying them. It works for trees. Any field guide to trees will tell you that the blue spruce in front of you is a conifer and, as such, has a lot in common with pines. CanContinue reading “Can You Sort Out Your Feelings?”
Alexithymia and the Hermeneutic Laborer
When Your Partner Can’t Talk About His Feelings “She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not. She loves me!” Saying this while pulling petals off a flower is a silly way to determine whether she loves you, but it’s easier than engagingContinue reading “Alexithymia and the Hermeneutic Laborer”
Emotional Labor
Who’s Really the Boss? It sounds like a capitalist’s dream come true, monetizing your feelings. Except it’s already come true. There are many jobs that include emotional labor. Sociologist, Arlie Hochschild was perhaps the first to write, back in 1983, about emotional labor in her book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. In herContinue reading “Emotional Labor”
Keith Wilson - Counseling 