What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed by Emotions

In Buddhism, it’s said that some people can merely hear the teachings and boom, they get them. Other people meditate and that brings them into their experience. Alternatively, others can contemplate the teachings and they fully land that way. Me? I sometimes have to go through the process of writing a whole book on the topic in order to really and truly understand it.

That was certainly the case some years back when I tackled Love Hurts, my book around heartbreak and grappling with other strong emotions. I had an understanding of the teachings on…