Wipe That Green Off Your Face

I'm a very envious person, though I don't act on it (meaning I don't try to mess things up for people who are doing well). Where does envy stem from? How can I get rid of it?

--Begrudging Woman

You see a friend achieving some success and you say, "So happy for you. Well-deserved!" -- which is a more polite way of saying, "I hope you are stricken with a rare deadly form of full-body adult acne."

We think of envy as an ugly, counterproductive emotion, but it's really just a tool, like a jackham...