Celeste Cai

Emotional pain is inevitable in life. Feelings of stress, inadequacy, disappointment, anxiety, anger, and sadness are universal and part of the shared human experience. Every individual experience these feelings through different situations and all of us interpret these experiences through varied perspectives because of our upbringing, social, cultural and personality differences. To move on, sometimes we learn to mask our difficult emotions by suffering in silence or behaving as though everything is okay. However, when we avoid or suppress our pain, they may fester within us and surface through personal / career / relationship / health issues.

Despite the pain, there lies an opportunity for growth. Growth and healing take place when we are rested in the confidence that we can learn to heal, adapt and improve, even in the worst situations. To manage life's challenges, we can learn how to embrace our own mental states, discover and use our internal resources to shape our own narrative of life again.