Hot take: if there's anything that feels as good as feeling good, it's crying in the shower. Not to be confused with the tears that crop up on your birthday or while sitting in the car, crying in the ...

Crying is a valuable part of human communication and emotional expression, and studies show it can be healthy.

It's not easy to control your emotions in your dreams. More often than not, dreams are bizarre and don’t seem to have any relation to reality. Sometimes, though, your dreams can feel incredibly real.

The classroom situation was not that unusual: A student, Matilda, was preparing to read her essay aloud to my expository-writing class. Describing her feelings toward her father, who had abandoned his ...

Crying: In humans, it is the production of tears usually accompanied by facial muscle contractions and vocal sounds. But what happens in the body during this ordinary occurrence, and what social ...

Brandon Stosuy is the author of several books on creativity and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Creative Independent. His latest book, "Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears," began when ...

In Japan, negative emotion and vulnerability are often couched in shame. A 2011 study on culture and crying found the Japanese had some of the driest eyes in the world. Much of Japan is so averse to ...

A dear friend of mine whom I recently lost spent most of his life near the Severn River in Maryland. The Severn is technically a “tidal estuary”—a brackish inlet off the Chesapeake Bay, where salt ...

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