The people who allow themselves to cry aren’t weaker. In many ways, they’re doing the harder work. Crying still gets a bad ...

That awkward moment when you feel a lump bubble up in the back of your throat, but you couldn’t actually cry if someone paid you to. It makes no sense that you can be so good at crying sometimes ...

Rollo May, in his last work, The Cry for Myth (1991), clearly illustrates the vital psychological importance of myths that help give meaning to human existence. Soren Kierkegaard, a philosophical ...

Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / AJR_photo. That box of tissues isn’t just for mopping up your emotions—those tears you’ve been holding back at work, in traffic, or during that commercial with the ...