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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is more than a buzzword. Cultivating it is an essential component of striking the tricky balance between work and life. These articles will help you understand and develop your emotional intelligence and put it to work in your life.

By Laura Araujo

August 14, 2021

Are You Ready to Leverage Equanimity to Gracefully Navigate Periods of Uncertainty? Here Are 5 Steps You Can Implement Today.

The principle of equanimity is all about balance, resilience, and equilibrium. But it doesn’t mean that we must accept a life of passivity, in which we exist without emotion, without vibrancy, without humanness!

By Rebecca Capps, LMFT

May 10, 2021

Why It’s Time for You to Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

Few emotions in life are as profound as those stemming from your childhood experiences. But what you may not realize is that the roots of those experiences may go further than just your own childhood. Therefore, if your goal is to be the best version of yourself, you must start by taking an honest inventory of any traumas that may be holding you back in the first place. Otherwise, you may end up projecting old wounds or patterns onto others.

By Lauren Hoffmeier

March 8, 2021

The Biological Power of Playfulness Revealed: It’s Time to Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously

There was a moment in time when our chimpanzee ancestors gave rise to the homosapien by discovering the elixir of youth. It’s something called neoteny, which is the quality of slowing down the growth process, which is the very thing that made us smarter: we explored more, we practiced more, we played more.

By Laura Araujo

October 15, 2020

Does Science Validate Affirmation?

Practices like expressions of gratitude offer a number of benefits – including giving us power to break habituations and allowing our brain to release a feel-good surge of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and nerepinephrine.

By Laura Araujo

September 9, 2020

A World of Velveteen Rabbits

What is the most perfect thing in your life? But is it perfect?
As you think about your most perfect thing, you may begin to recognize that it’s full of flaws, imperfections, chips, and faults. That it’s anything but perfect — at least by that definition. And as you think about those “imperfections,” you may find a smile crawl across your face.

By Laura Araujo

August 6, 2020

Are Your Emotions In The Driver’s Seat?

Emotions influence how we engage with others, affect the decisions we make and our relationship with them, and how we respond to them, and communicate with them, makes all the difference.

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