Category: Emotional Health

Emotional Vocabulary

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

  • Why I’ve been focusing lately on getting very specific when describing my emotions.
  • How you can use your creativity and varied vocabulary to create a different experience of emotion.
  • Why learning to distinguish between similar emotions – like ecstatic, happy, and joyous – is so worthwhile.
  • The knee-jerk response people give when asked what they want to feel.
  • Several questions you can ask yourself, loved ones, and clients about emotions to understand how they vary from person to person.
  • How to “try on” different emotions.
  • How to change the emotional vocabulary you use in your daily life.
  • The benefits I’ve experienced when I distinguish between similar negative emotions.
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Pain Now or Later

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

  • The difference between experiencing pain now and experiencing pain later.
  • Why we learn as children to disassociate from our pain and our bodies.
  • How buffering against pain and running away from it makes it worse in the long run.
  • How and why your life will expand when you accept pain as part of being alive.
  • Things that can help us to accept and process pain.
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Drama

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

  • How to recognize if you’re being too dramatic about your life.
  • Why I recommend de-dramatizing your life as much as you can.
  • How the way you describe your life to yourself affects your life.
  • A few real-life examples of how my clients have over-dramatized their life.
  • The steps you can take to de-dramatize just about any stressful situation.
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Simple Solutions

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

  • The issue that most people have when working on solving a problem.
  • The importance of defining the problem and finding its root cause.
  • A step-by-step process for finding a simple solution to any problem.
  • Additional tips for making your solutions simple and effective.
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Why Change is Hard

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

  • The importance of finding a way to make discomfort part of the pleasure you enjoy in your life.
  • Why I recommend embracing discomfort and growth.
  • The discomfort of growth vs the discomfort of punishing yourself for not being where you want to be.
  • How to get “comfortable” with your discomfort and blow your mind.
Listen to the Show HERE.