Emotional Strength
Book Series 11: Do Your Feelings Come Up or Come Down?
Heartfelt, Gut Feeling or Gut Instinct — Is it science? Did you know that the terms “heartfelt”, “gut feeling” or your “gut instinct” are grounded in science? Our bodies contain…
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Book Series 9: The Rosenberg Reset
Let’s talk about the — ROSENBERG RESET” and the first of the 3 steps — One Choice. The Rosenberg Reset is a strategy that enables people to more fully lean…
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Book Series 8: The Rosenberg Reset
Let’s talk about the — ROSENBERG RESET” and learning to cope with life’s challenges in healthy ways. While working at the UCLA student-counseling center 25 years ago, I drew a…
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Book Series 7: Asking for Help & Relying On Others
Let’s talk about “asking for help and relying on others” this week. Being resourceful is the second defining element of emotional strength. Particularly important in being resourceful is having the…
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Book Series 6: Feeling Capable
Let’s talk about “relying on yourself” this week. You might be thinking — I do that every day Dr. Joan!’. Let me be clear — if you are avoiding unpleasant…
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Book Series 5: Redefining Emotional Strength
In my book “90 Seconds To A Life You Love”, I talk about emotional strength meaning “feeling capable and being resourceful”. Feeling capable of facing life’s challenges emerges out of…
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Book Series 4: How To Achieve Emotional Mastery
Over my three and a half decades of counseling, I came to recognize a pattern among many of my clients that involved common-yet-destructive misconceptions about emotional strength and emotional weakness.…
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Book Series 3: How To Achieve Emotional Mastery
Over recent weeks, I’ve been talking about the importance of managing your feelings well. I’m not really one to beat around the bush, so, if you’re good with it, let’s…
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Book Series 2: The Gift of Unpleasant Feelings
In my book “90 Seconds To A Life You Love”, I start off by talking about the skills that have to be built to reset your ability to absorb and…
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Book Series 1: Living a Life by Design
Now that my book is out, I want to start going through the ways you can live a life you love, actually by design. This book, 90 Seconds to a…
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