Emotional pain can feel overwhelming, sometimes as intense as physical pain. Yet, unlike a broken bone or a cut, emotional wounds often lack clear treatment. What if the right words could ease emotional suffering as effectively as medicine? This idea is at the heart of the groundbreaking work by Matthew Lieberman, a UCLA neuroscientist who has spent decades exploring how putting feelings into words changes the brain and reduces emotional pain. Understanding Emotional Pain in

So, the first step: learn more about your anxiety and make friends with it. One way of doing it is to find the meaning of your anxiety in the present: what can I do NOW about it, what can I change NOW so I can feel better? A word that I like a lot in this respect is the French "apprivoiser". It means "tame," "domesticate," ultimately, learn to deal with it focusing on the present. Here comes the old, old wisdom of uncertain origins, and you probably know its short version: