10 Mar, 2025
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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.   […]

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10 Strategies to Help Kids Manage Uncomfortable Emotions

Dealing with uncertainty and difficult emotions is part of life. Learning how to accept and manage both is important for a child’s growth and development. In a world that values immediate gratification and ease, it can be challenging to teach kids how to tolerate these feelings without intentional practice. Rogers Behavioral Health’s Dr. Amanda Heins […]