Feelings
Why Your Feelings Are Okay
The 5 Stages of Grief in Autism Are a Framework, Not a Checklist The familiar 5 stages of grief include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Experts emphasize that parents may move between these emotions rather than experience them in a predictable order. A parent may experience several stages at once, skip one entirely, or […]
Understanding Emotional Avoidance and Learning to Tolerate Uncomfortable Feelings
Fear, grief, shame, embarrassment, and other uncomfortable emotions are not pleasant. From time to time it is quite normal to avoid a situation, person, place, or thing that might trigger an undesirable emotion, but when it interferes with your daily functioning and/or becomes a problematic recurring issue, it is clinically defined as emotional avoidance. […]
Two Ways to Resolve Feelings of Dread About the Future
Life affords many opportunities to feel dread. It’s an emotion that is highly unpleasant, feels uncontrollable, and comes from getting stuck in your head. You become preoccupied with some experience you’re about to face and all you can think about is how bad it will be. You try to think optimistically that it won’t be […]