I’ve been thinking about longing lately... Where does our longing for a person, a place, or a situation come from? What does it tell us? To begin with, I wanted to understand longing as an emotion a little better… I had spent a great deal of time researching emotions for my master’s thesis, titled The Connection Between the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Dysregulation and Interpersonal Communication Styles. What is an emotion? How does it arise? What does it lead t

On emotions, belonging, and discovering who you are "Despair, weariness, emptiness, and nothingness… Once they take hold of you, they are difficult emotions to escape. It feels as if you have fallen into a well without water and are sitting there with your face buried in your knees. You feel as though you are the most meaningless being in the world, as if you are the only person going through difficult times." Are you familiar with these feelings as well? Have you ever sunk s

An exploration of intuitive and cognitive emotions, the nervous system, and the role of free will The concept of emotion is both deeply embedded in our daily lives and, at the same time, incredibly complex and difficult to fully grasp… During the period when I was studying systemic constellations and ancestral healing, I knew I was on a path that felt deeply right from within. What I read and listened to resonated with me both intuitively and intellectually. Yet, a part of me

Do words have exact equivalents in every language? When we translate from one language to another, do they truly carry the same meaning? And if each person carries a language of their own—an inner language—does a word that sounds the same from the outside really mean the same thing to everyone? I don’t think there is a clear answer to that. What is happiness, really? A state, a feeling… And what about pain or anger? While working on emotional dysregulation during my master’