Greatest Hits: Lisa Ould on the Art of Emotional Stability
About this episode
Tommy revisits a conversation with Lisa Ould on emotional stability and understanding emotions.
Tommy revisits a conversation with Lisa Ould, executive director of Barnabas Center and decades-long counselor, on one of the most personal and underaddressed topics he has taken on across all of Space for Life. Whether you tend to suppress what you feel or find yourself regularly overwhelmed by it, this episode offers a clear framework for understanding where emotions come from, why they matter, and how to stay in what Lisa calls your window of tolerance. Tommy gets personal too, sharing a formative story from his high school lacrosse days that quietly shaped how he has related to his own emotions ever since. What You'll Hear in This Episode: What the emotions wheel is and why most of us only have five or six words for what we actually feel. The critical distinction between experiencing an emotion, expressing it, and the choices you make from there. The counseling concept of the window of tolerance, and what it looks like to be in hyperarousal or hypoarousal. How your belief systems shape your habitual emotional patterns, and why naming those beliefs is the first step toward changing them. Practical guidance for the over-expressive person and the emotionally shut-down person…
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