How To Manage Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You

About this episode

The episode discusses how to manage emotions effectively using a practical framework.

Your emotions don’t just happen to you like the weather. They follow a path, and once you learn to shape that path, everything changes: your decisions, your relationships, your focus, and the life you’re building. I walk through a practical framework for emotional regulation and emotional management using tools from psychologist and neuroscience researcher Ethan Kross (Shift: How to Manage Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You) and Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence director Marc Bracke...

People in this episode

Host: Angela Shurina

Topics covered

• emotional regulation
• emotional management
• decision making
• relationships
• focus
• self-improvement

Keywords

• emotions
• emotional regulation
• Ethan Kross
• Marc Brackett
• self-improvement
• decision making
• relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Books & works: Shift: How to Manage Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You

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