No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

Julia Turchaninova is a former senior teacher from the Houston Independent School District/Houston Community College System (HISD/HCCS) with a doctorate in education and more than four decades of ...

Anxiety is one of the most common challenges for humans. Anxiety and worry have some evolutionary value, helping us to be attentive to what might or could happen if we don’t continue to pay attention ...

An example of kintsugi art. Source: Marco Montalti/Shutterstock I have often used six metaphors to help my adolescent patients better understand the nature of their psychotherapy and their healing ...

Luciara Nardon received funding from the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work and funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Insight Grant (435-2020-0025) Amrita Hari ...