Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, PhD, is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at The City University of New York. As director of the Emotion Regulation Lab, she conducts NIH-funded research on anxiety, suicide, and digital therapeutics for stress and anxiety. She is the cofounder of Arcade Therapeutics, which translates cutting-edge science into digital tools for behavioral health, and co-executive director of the Center for Health Technology at Hunter College. She is the author of Future Tense: Making Anxiety Our Superpower.
We have all experienced anger from a very early age. But if we pay attention to the emotion, can it transform to give us a sense of clarity, to help us see what is important?
From a psychological perspective, attachment is vital to the mental well-being of a developing human. But from the Buddhist viewpoint, attachment is the mind state that trips us up constantly.
In this new season, Raveena Aurora and others use a mandala as a guide and share how they wrestle and learn from five challenging emotions: anger, pride, attachment, envy, and ignorance.
