Not every painful feeling is a useless feeling.

Sometimes discomfort is telling you something important.

Sometimes it is simply the pain of being disappointed, rejected, corrected, embarrassed, or afraid.

The challenge is learning to separate the signal from the sting.

Separate The Signal From The Sting explores how to examine difficult emotions without automatically treating every painful reaction as a complete description of reality.

Someone's criticism can hurt while still containing something worth considering.

A rejection can sting without meaning you're unworthy.

A difficult conversation can make you uncomfortable without meaning it was a mistake.

A failure can damage your confidence without proving that you cannot succeed.

The emotional reaction is real.

But the interpretation tha ...