Emotional First Aid is Necessary for a Healthy Life. Here’s Why

We often pay more attention to how we feel physically than we do our mental health. But in this time of heightened anxiety, it’s more important than ever to take our mental well‑being as seriously as we do our physical health. As psychologist and author Guy Winch points out in this insightful TEDx Talk, we sustain psychological injuries, like rejection, failure, and loneliness, more often than we do physical ones. And those wounds can negatively affect our lives if they aren’t healed.