The word ‘vulnerability’ can make a lot of men cringe. I get it. Until Brene Brown explained a different take on this word in her 2010 Ted talk, I pretty much had ‘weakness’ associated with any kind of vulnerability — physical or emotional. And I’m a woman. From the stories…

I’ve found along my own path of personal development that emotional non-response is often confused with emotional suppression. I probably did the same thing at one time. The terms do sound sort of the same. Yet as I’ve studied the physiology behind emotional activation and pattern formation, and as I’ve…

“I can’t make you feel anything. That’s your issue”. I cringe a bit now as I type those words, remembering how unknowingly naive I was early in my personal growth. And I completely blew connection with my husband a number of times by saying this. Oooft. Yet today, this attitude…

So far in parts one and two of this series on emotional development, we started by covering the differences between emotional management (self-regulation) and emotional development. And then continued by reviewing the benefits of emotional self-regulation, as well as some signs that can indicate that it may be time to…

In the first post of this 3-part series “What no one told me about Emotional Self-Regulation”, we talked about the differences between emotional management and emotional development. So before we move onto what emotional development entails, let’s take a look at how we do benefit from our healthy coping or…

When Daniel Goleman’s book popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence, the general public was introduced to the phrase Emotional Regulation — the strategies that keep an over-active emotional response from basically ruining our interactions with others. Over time, and as we’ve learned more about how our brain works and the…

Are you struggling to keep your focus or your interest in work today? Well, you’re not alone. And it may relieve you to know it’s natural. AND that we’re not even designed as humans to be motivated all the time. …

We live in a fast-paced, imperfect ‘brut-iful’ world that dishes up unexpected behavior from it’s headlined inhabitants with fervor. And it’s emotionally upsetting to watch inappropriate behavior in others, whether it’s in person, in a movie or in the news. Why? …

When I first began this latest stage of growth seven years ago, I was so relieved and excited to finally understand the piece I had been missing…that my enthusiasm often poured over into my marriage, even when my partner wasn’t ready for it. With behaviors like sharing what I had…