This document discusses various coping strategies for dealing with emotions, including forgiveness, journaling, meditation, exercise, nutrition, humor, social coping, and meaning-focused coping. It notes that emotions help prepare the body for action, influence thoughts, and motivate future behaviors. The document also identifies maladaptive coping techniques such as avoidance, violence, substance abuse, and blaming others, and recommends goals for coping such as lowering expectations, asking for help, taking responsibility, problem solving, and maintaining emotionally supportive relationships.