Negative emotions aren't enemies—they're data. Anger tells you about boundaries. Fear points to values. Frustration signals change needed. Essays on what neuroscience says about processing feelings without suppressing or drowning in them. Turns out "think positive" drives emotions underground where they do more damage. Twenty years of meditation didn't make feelings disappear—taught me to work with them, not against them. No toxic positivity, no spiritual bypassing. Just honest processing.