At some times, all people feel joyful, caring, and fulfilled. At other times all people feel sorrowful, angry, and frustrated.

People express their feelings with people they know well, are close to, and trust.

Expressing feelings and emotions about unresolved experiences can make you vulnerable. Do it only with safe people.

It is important to stay in a tough situations long enough to learn the lessons that it has to teach. When it's done -- it's done. Walk away and don't look back.

People can learn to open themselves to the full range of both pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions. There seems to be a real choice: go numb to all feelings; or be willing to embrace all feelings

Self-medicating your feelings with alcohol or other drugs doesn’t work. If you have an addictive brain chemistry response that makes you euphoric, you will feel better now and get addicted latter. If you don’t, the alcohol and other drugs make you feel worse.