Authors and illustrators Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy offer a roadmap to recognizing, sitting with, and learning from the 'big' feelings that most commonly bring us discomfort.

When we scroll through social media, it can seem like success and happiness are the only things worth sharing with the world.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be happy, but if we can't express other kinds of emotions, we will only set ourselves on a path toward loneliness and detachment.

Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy are authors and public speakers known for their 2019 book No Hard Feelings, an illustrated bestseller about navigating emotions in the workplace.

In their 2022 book, Big Feelings, Fosslien and Duffy explore difficult feelings we commonly deal with in the 21st century – including uncertainty, comparison, anger, burnout, perfectionism, despair, and regret – debunking common myths and offering productive ways of dealing with them.