Laurie Anderson has famously sung that “Language Is a Virus,” and nowhere is her insight truer than in the realm of emotion words. Emotion labels slip in and out of vogue, and lately, “resentment” has ...
I recently heard psychologist Thema Bryant-Davis (president-elect of the American Psychological Association) say that resentment prevents connection, and causes others to meet us in our wounds, not in ...
Resentment describes a negative emotional reaction to being mistreated. There is no single cause of resentment, but most cases involve an underlying sense of being mistreated or wronged by another ...
I have been researching gratitude for the past 25 years, mainly in the field of education. No matter what the context or country, when I raise the topic of resentment in my workshops, the mood of the ...