466 - Building Emotional Stability & Resilience

About this episode

This episode discusses emotional stability and resilience in recovery and personal growth, featuring guest Heather Kolb who shares strategies for managing emotions.

In this episode of the Pure Desire Podcast, we dive into the essential topic of emotional stability and its role in recovery, relationships, and personal growth. We explore how to assess whether we are managing our emotions or being managed by them, and why there are no inherently “good” or “bad” emotions. Emotions are powerful indicators of deeper realities and can reveal patterns that lead to relapse if left unchecked. Our guest, Heather Kolb, shares practical strategies for slowing down, analyzing emotional triggers, and reshaping patterns connected to fear, anger, loneliness, or rejection. We also discuss habits to cultivate emotional resilience, ways to support loved ones without taking responsibility for their feelings, and recommended resources for deepening emotional health. This episode equips listeners to engage their emotions with awareness, understanding, and stability.

People in this episode

Guest: Heather Kolb

Topics covered

• emotional stability
• resilience
• personal growth
• emotional health
• relationships

Keywords

• emotional stability
• resilience
• emotional triggers
• personal growth
• relationships
• emotional health

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