S2E5: Don't be a Jagoff and Don’t Let One Run Your Life

About this episode

The episode discusses emotional regulation as a learnable skill and the importance of managing one's emotions effectively.

Emotional Regulation: Working With Your Emotions, Not Against Them Somebody blows up, shuts down, or flips the story so fast you end up apologizing and wondering what just happened. We start there, but we don’t stay there, because the real leverage point is what we do with our own emotions first. We talk about emotional regulation as a learnable skill, why emotions are signals not threats, and how a small pause can keep a hard moment from becoming collateral damage. Anger gets a special spot...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sherry Ehrin, Jodi Chestnut

Topics covered

• emotional regulation
• self-improvement
• anger management
• emotional skills
• personal development

Keywords

• emotional regulation
• emotions
• anger
• self-improvement
• personal development

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