Blog - Dr. Joan Rosenberg

Change Is The Constant

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Your greatest sense of stability and security is achieved when you feel resourceful within. First, I would like to thank those of you who reached out in the past week to connect with me and let me know how they you’ve been doing these past several weeks. It brings me peace knowing that while we…

How Are You?

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

I have been thinking a lot about you, whether you’re an active reader of my weekly emails, or perhaps the casual blog reader of content on my website. I try and provide you with a sense of direction, a sense of peace, and hopefully give you a jump start in the middle of your weekly…

Working Towards Change And Self-Reflection

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How can you use this time to take stock in yourself, self-reflect, and work on the changes you’ve always wanted to work on? It may feel like our world has been separated into two parts: pre-COVID19 and now. And as I have been reflecting on what things were and what could be, I wanted to…

Understanding feelings of helplessness while cooped up at home.

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Understanding feelings of helplessness while cooped up at home. I’m wondering if you’re like me and more ready for a transition back outside the home, and into a community and city you recognize. While staying inside is the healthy, safe, and smart practice to follow, I can empathize and understand that the stresses of being…

Creating A Routine To Create A Sense Of Calm

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How can you “Calendarize” your day, to better bring about a sense of calm? I hope I am finding you healthy right now, and I want you to know that I have been keeping you in my thoughts that you remain safe during these uncertain times. As you’ve been following I’ve been focused on providing…

Staying Resilient: Consider Completing and Creating

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

I hope this blog post continues to find you safe and well. As many of us stay the course on “sheltering-in-place”, similar to last week, my intent is to keep sharing thoughts to consider and tips that can help keep you feeling more centered and balanced. As I am now well into my 3rd week…

How to Be More Resilient Dealing with Our ‘Not-so-normal’ New Normal

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

I just want to use this blog post to talk more directly about reactions you may be having to this unprecedented life experience dealing with consequences of the COVID-19 virus and to offer my perspective . . . in other words, thoughts to consider and tips that can help keep you feeling more centered and…

Book Series 48: How Using Your Name Can Help Ease Anxiety

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

This week we are going to be answering the question I posed in my last blog post: How do you talk to yourself? Are you gentle and kind? Or are you harsh and blunt? What you say to yourself really does matter. When you talk to yourself (and most people do), and you’ve done something…

Book Series 47: How Do You Talk To Yourself?

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Welcome to March! As we head in to this new month, I’m checking in: How are you doing? What choices are you making to improve your life? What do you notice about your own progress? I know at times I cover some sensitive topics that may elicit unpleasant feelings, but I’m proud of you for…

Book Series 46: Self-Affirmations Making A Difference In Easing Anxiety

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Self Affirmation is a tested way of helping you build emotional and mental toughness, while helping ease anxiety. Have you ever considered that self-affirmations could actually make a difference in easing anxiety, given the tremendous amount of confusion and controversy about them? Affirmations are the positive self-statements (e.g., “I am beautiful,” “I am well liked…

Book Series 45: Anxiety Is Doubting Your Emotional Strength

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How do I stop doubting myself, and work on my inner emotional strength? How does resourcefulness effect your ability to handle anxiety? And when you do experience moments of anxiety, how can you help yourself to feel capable in those moments, and how can you build emotional strength? These are the questions I would like…

Book Series 44: Techniques That Change How You Talk About Anxiety

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How can I prepare myself to better handle my anxiety? If you were able to read my last blog post, we went over the Rosenberg Anxiety Reset™, and before we jump in to this next week, I want you to take a moment and go over how using this technique helped you. If you weren’t…

Book Series 43: Rosenberg Anxiety Reset™

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How do you accurately identify, feel, and express your thoughts and feelings? As we close out the first month of this new year and new decade, it is a nice opportunity to just check in and see if anything has changed with how you are thinking and processing feelings. Speaking of feelings… If true feelings…

Book Series 42: How Your Anxiety Is An Unexpressed Feeling Of Vulnerability

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How many times have you felt anxious when you were really feeling vulnerable instead? Anxiety acts as a cover, much like an umbrella. This umbrella is covering your experience of the eight unpleasant feelings. Once you are aware of and in touch with the real feelings, the anxiety diminishes greatly. Then it is a matter…

Book Series 41: Diminishing Anxiety: Strategies That Help

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Words you use can make a big difference in how you feel, and this is especially true for emotions like fear and anxiety. Language is really important to me, and my interest in words likely stems back to playful exchanges with my father throughout childhood and adolescence. He was quick with words, and the two…

Book Series 40: How To Start Releasing Anxiety And Worry

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

What if you could get a handle on the worry and anxiety you experience? Welcome to the first weekly reading series of the new year! I hope you have been able to find guidance in the previous year from these weekly blog posts, and my hope is that you continue to find that guidance as…

Book Series 39: 5 Exercises To Overcome Your Emotional Distractions Part 3

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Having feelings about having feelings acts as a distracter from your initial reaction and most authentic feeling experience. As we start to wind down our talk about distractions over the next couple weeks, please head over to my Facebook page or blog and let me know how the exercises are helping you! Quick reminder: Over…

Eliminating Distraction Exercises Part 2

Book Series 38: 5 Exercises To Overcome Your Emotional Distractions Part 2

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

My goal is to help you clear away the distractions from accessing and experiencing the full range of your feelings so that the decade beginning with 2020 helps you lead a more fully alive and more fully expressed life. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be challenging you to become aware and identify…

Book Series 37: 5 Exercises To Overcome Your Emotional Distractions

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

My goal is to help you clear away the distractions from accessing and experiencing the full range of your feelings so that the decade beginning with 2020 helps you lead a more fully alive and more fully expressed life. Before we get down to the nitty gritty this week, I’d like you to find grab…

Book Series 36: Disconnection and Distractions

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Have you developed habitual patterns that keep you disconnected from relating to emotional experiences? Lets start this weeks blog series with an important and relatable example: Leah and Cotter, a professional couple in their early 40s, both work in white collar professions. They have been married for just over 12 years, and they have two…

Book Series 35: Are You A Control Freak?

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

You can really think of the effort to control as an effort at preventing or stopping feelings all together. How many people have you heard describe themselves as “control freaks”? Or say that they hate “losing control”? Perhaps you feel this way, too. The word “control” implies that something is being imposed from the outside…

Book Series 34: Identifying and Overcoming Distractions

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

When you make the choice to disconnect or distract from your feelings, you opt for the fleeting relief that comes from distancing yourself from an uncomfortable situation or experience. The ways you keep yourself from being well attuned and connected to yourself – in essence, how you sabotage or undermine your emotional strength – is…

Book Series 33: Why Accurately Labeling Feelings Leads To Self Love

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

You can’t feel capable, nor confident, until you have a sense that you can handle the feelings associated with things not working out the way you wanted. As we approach the end of October, I hope you have been able to experience inner peace and self understanding from my weekly reading series. But before we…

Book Series 32: Why Labeling Feelings Is Important

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

When we put feelings into words, we actually change the brain’s response to the emotions themselves. Last week, we talked about the window of tolerance. Today it’s all about the importance of labeling your feelings, so that you can better understand them, and you can feel more skillful whenever you encounter them. Naming or labeling…

Book Series 31: Emotional Tolerance and How Do You Experience Feelings?

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

The window of tolerance concept helps us understand why there are so many individual differences in how we experience feelings. I hope you’ve had a wonderful week, and I’m glad that you are back as we continue this conversation about emotional tolerance, and explore the differences in how we experience our feelings. The window of…

Book Series 30: Do You Know The Scary Movie Factor?

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

How do ‘scary movies’ effect our tolerance for emotional body sensations? Today we are moving on to what I call the “Scary Movie Factor”. Here’s the gist of it. Think about whether you like or dislike going to scary movies. People who enjoy scary movies often say they enjoy them in part because of the…

Ever wonder what to do with your feelings when you feel them

Book Series 29: What to do with your feelings when you feel them

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

What to “do” with your feelings when you feel them. Give yourself some credit! You just walked with me through learning about the 8 difficult feelings and I think staying the course on this journey merits a hardy congratulations! As the Aussies would say, “Good on ya!” Now that you have a better idea about…

Book Series 28: The Connection Between Vulnerability and Emotional Weakness Part 3

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

There is a connection that vulnerability has to both emotional strength and weakness. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read Part 1 Blog Post and Part 2 Blog Post of this series, I would invite you to do so. Vulnerability is such an important yet challenging emotion, and I can only hope that what…

Book Series 27: Conscious Vulnerability Part 2

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Do you make the conscience decision to be vulnerable? Conscious vulnerability is a vulnerability we choose to lean into. When we get serious about taking a personal, professional, or social risk, we open ourselves up to being hurt (laughed at, ridiculed, teased, or embarrassed). Think about public speaking, engaging in athletic competition, acting, singing, playing…

Book Series 26: How to Deepen Your Understanding of Vulnerability Part 1

Confidence, Emotional Strength, Emotional Well-Being

Is there a dual nature to vulnerability? Our next topic is one that I am excited and deeply passionate about, and because there is so much to vulnerability, I am going to break it down in to a three part discussion over the coming weeks, so that we can truly have the time to go…

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