Emotional Well-Being
Book Series 31: Emotional Tolerance and How Do You Experience Feelings?
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…
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Book Series 30: Do You Know The Scary Movie Factor?
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.…
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Book Series 29: What to do with your feelings when you feel them
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…
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Book Series 28: The Connection Between Vulnerability and Emotional Weakness Part 3
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…
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Book Series 27: Conscious Vulnerability Part 2
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…
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Book Series 26: How to Deepen Your Understanding of Vulnerability Part 1
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…
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Book Series 25: How do we learn to tolerate frustration?
When you are frustrated, do you react with a fight reaction or flight reaction? Physiologically, frustration is associated with high levels of arousal or activation of the acute stress response…
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Book Series 24: When You Feel Disappointed, Here Are A Few Distinctions to Consider
Disappointment is experienced when we are faced with unmet needs, desires, and expectations. What does disappointment highlight? How do you handle disappointment? We hope, expect, or anticipate something positive yet…
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Book Series 23: Embarrassment: How we all wish we would have done that one thing differently
HOW TO GROW AS A PERSON AFTER SUFFERING EMBARRASSMENT This week we get to talk about embarrassment. Trust me, we’ve all had moments of extreme embarrassment, myself included! But as…
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Book Series 22: What Are The Two Primary Functions of Anger?
How is anger a protective response? Welcome back! I hope you found some answers in last weeks topic of — Feeling Helpless”, and I’m glad that you are continuing with…
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