So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can feel like second nature, but sometimes they're more than just quirks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone’s gone through emotional neglect, chronic stress, or unprocessed trauma, it often shows up in ways that look like ...

Most people think of people-pleasing as a harmless habit, but fawning is something entirely different — a trauma response so overlooked and misunderstood that most people don’t even realize they’re ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

Meg Josephson is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in trauma-informed care. She is also a certified meditation teacher through the Nalanda Institute. People-pleasing is not a personality ...

These days, it's common to scroll through social media feeds and see certain "buzzy" terms in captions and on images, like "gaslighting," "golden handcuffs," "brightsiding," "parentification" and ...

Trauma isn't always a dramatic, visible wound. Often, its presence in our lives is far more subtle, woven into the fabric of our daily routines and manifesting as seemingly innocuous habits or ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their bodies can still carry a biological “imprint” of the event years into the ...

Even after healing, trauma can resurface in long-term relationships. Understanding nervous system responses helps couples grow through old patterns with compassion.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. If you tolerate behavior from relatives you would never accept ...

A rapper who has became more known for her controversial opinions than her music is under fire once again. Azealia Banks has sparked backlash for a recent social media post in which she called LGBTQ+ ...