RAIN: A Mindfulness Practice for Welcoming Your Emotions
This four-step practice helps you recognize your emotions so you can respond, not react, to challenging situations.
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Bottled-Up Emotions at Work Lead to Burnout
You can’t tease out solutions to problems like employee burnout and dissatisfaction without first acknowledging something is off kilter. The core mindful practice — noticing and labelling thoughts — could be key to navigating high stress workplaces.
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Manage Big Parenting Feelings Before They Manage You
Huge parenting misnomer: we need to protect our kids from our negative feelings. The truth: it’s easier to lose control when we’re focused on stopping our emotions. Carla Naumburg explores seven practices to help you build resilience during tense parenting moments.
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How to Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
When it comes to celebrating strengths, brains and braun often trump sensitivity and emotional resilience. This short animation makes the case for recognizing the importance of our own feelings, as well as those around us.
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“Inside Out” Director Pete Docter on the Importance of Getting Out of Your Own Head
Do you dwell on the negative and let moments of joy just pass you by? In this podcast, discover how the Academy Award-winning director of Inside Out got out of his head and savored the good in his life.
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4 Strategies for Mindful Parenting
Tips to keep your sanity and enjoy your time as a (mindful) parent.
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How Labels Help: Tame Reactive Emotions by Naming Them
If we can see a strong emotion—like anger—welling up, then we don’t have to be it.
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How Your Brain Stops a Bad Day from Making You Hate Everyone
A new study shows how our brains prevent “emotional spillover” from biasing our first impressions of new people.
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How Many Different Human Emotions Are There?
A new study identifies 27 categories of emotion and shows how they blend together in our everyday experience.
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The ABCs of Emotions
A practical framework for becoming aware of and working with emotional intensity and transforming emotional struggle into inner wisdom.
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