The Language You've Been Missing — (with Greg & Missy)
About this episode
Greg and Missy share their journey of rebuilding their marriage through the Core Emotion Wheel and the importance of emotional language.
Greg and Missy didn't come to Connection Codes as experts — they came as a couple who almost didn't make it. Thirty years married, with a near-divorce and a two-year separation somewhere in the middle, they found the Core Emotion Wheel during the slow work of rebuilding. In this episode, Phyllis sits down with these longtime listeners (who emailed in after we invited friends onto the show) to talk about the quiet superpower underneath all of it: putting language to what you actually feel. They get into how the wheel gave their daughter, who has Down syndrome, words to be heard and seen; how they stopped fighting about things they secretly agreed on; how they're using the wheel situationally through a giant life transition; and how connection is what makes room for creativity in the first place — the idea behind Greg's brand-new book. Along the way, the conversation cracks open one of the most misunderstood emotions of all — Anger — and lands somewhere genuinely surprising. In this episode: Why "result words" like overwhelmed, anxious, and upset keep us stuck — and how the core emotions give every brain a common language How the wheel gave their daughter language to be…
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