Anger is one of those emotions we’re often taught to fear or suppress. It can feel explosive, unpredictable or shameful; something to keep a lid on or push away. However, anger is rarely the real problem. More often, it’s a messenger calling our attention to something deeper that needs to be heard.   When anger shows up, it’s often protecting something vulnerable beneath it like pain, fear, sadness, disappointment or a deep sense of not being seen or valued. It can rise when our boundaries...

Ella Al-Shamahi with a shell necklace. Taken from Episode 1 of Human on BBC. There’s a long-running debate about what “human nature”...

Grief is something that touches us all, though it rarely feels the same for any two people. For me, grief isn’t something to be “fixed”...