How often have you heard decision-makers say, “Just give me the facts.” The assumption? The “facts” alone–delivered without emotion–convey the whole story. But experiments by psychologists and ...

An interview threw me back into my writing past when I became the final assignment for a graduating senior at my alma mater, Cal State Long Beach. Cameron Gomez’s excellent questions brought back ...

Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text ...

Writing therapy, whether as a solo practice or done in partnership with a licensed mental health clinician, has long been a powerful tool “for unpacking and making sense of our thoughts and feelings,” ...

“Writing is emotion imagined, editing is emotion experienced,” declared acclaimed filmmaker Raju Hirani, as he took the stage at Kala Academy during the ongoing International Film Festival of India ...

When emotions start to spiral, most people try to suppress them or fix them immediately, but that usually just makes it worse. The five-minute rule therapists use takes a different approach entirely.