If you’re a parent or teacher — or just someone who's witnessed a toddler throw a tantrum in public — you know that children don't always know how to express strong emotions like anger or frustration.

Few things are as annoying (and anxiety-heightening) as someone telling you to calm dow when you are, in fact, not calm at all. But if you are looking for advice on how to calm down that *actually* ...

Several techniques may help calm a fussy or crying baby. Swaddling, gently swinging, or making soothing sounds may help settle a baby and reduce stress for caregivers. People may need to practice each ...

We casually reference our nervous systems all the time—it’s highly likely that, at some point, you’ve used expressions like, “My nerves are shot,” or, “That’s getting on my nerves.” Even these little ...

It’s natural to feel tense when you’re going into a stressful situation, but tension can trigger emotions that derail conversations. Unfortunately, our remote world isn’t helping. We have fewer ...

In my therapy office, client after client, in session after session, has been expressing feelings of anxiety, distress, and despair. The unpredictability of recent events has fostered a widespread ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. There’s a world of difference between reacting to chaos ...

There are some emergency scenarios we don't want to think about: medical accidents, mass shootings or suicidal crises. But when these situations happen, staying calm and having a response plan could ...

There’s no shortage of reasons to be stressed these days, and there’s also no shortage of products that claim to combat that stress. Perhaps one of the easiest remedies you can choose from, however, ...

For the first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week—to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the ...