That’s not being dramatic or making things up. Your body might be reacting to emotional memories with very real pain signals, and it’s more common than you’d think. Our brains don’t always ...

What if the answer to this persistent pain isn’t physical, but emotional? Metahealth is an integrative model that is challenging the way we think about pain and illness. Unlike conventional ...

reveal a widespread confusion about what trauma truly is. The more we label every emotional pain as "trauma," the more confused we become, the worse we perceive our mental health to be ...

If you got a deep cut, you would clean it and apply a bandage. But what do you do when you experience emotional pain—like rejection or failure? We have been taught how to maintain our physical ...

In a sense, the unconscious nervous system signaling that causes chronic pain is equally reflexive. Beneath consciousness, each of us has an emotional reservoir that holds the extent of our grief ...

Our brains became hardwired to protect these resources, and when they were taken away, the emotional pain was immense—far greater than the joy of obtaining them. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman ...

In a sense, the unconscious nervous system signaling that causes chronic pain is equally reflexive. Beneath consciousness, each of us has an emotional reservoir that holds the extent of our grief ...