Articles
Programmers' stress levels can accurately predict the quality of their code
A study on the importance of stress management - emotional fluency is a critical part of understanding the sources of your stress.
Crying: An In-Depth Analysis
If you want to see someone do a deep-dive on the reason for, and the ways in which they cry, with charts and graphs, read this.
How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
A fascinating article that ponts to one of the insidious effects of anxiety. It does't just affect your emotions, it distorts you entire picture of reality
Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem
At this point self esteem has a lot fo bad press. On top of that, people wary of becoming arrogant shy away from the concept.
"Boosting your ego won’t make you feel better. Instead, try talking to yourself like you would your best friend."
Why Self-Awareness Is The First Step Toward Empathy
To better understand others, we must first better understand ourselves. According to new research, developing self-awareness plays an important role in being more empathetic.
Teaching Your Child Emotional Agility
To better understand others, we must first better understand ourselves. According to new research, developing self-awareness plays an important role in being more empathetic.
Want to Succeed? Become Self Aware
Daniel Goleman, who invented the phrade Emotionl Intelligence, writes:
"Self-awareness, one of the four key components of emotional intelligence, underlies the other three. Without knowing what we’re feeling, we can’t take steps to control those emotions."
Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being
Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental health.
Videos
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self
Anger and Complex Trauma
Brené Brown on Empathy
How to Empathy - Alex Harms
Shame: 3 Tips for Breaking the Cycle
Internal Family systems
Kevin Smith: EMDR and Finding Himself
Feel Wheels
There are multuple versions of the Feel Wheel floating around, I haven't found attribution for any of the newer designs, though the original concept was created by Dr. gloria Wilcox in the 1980s.
You can also try an interactive one at All The Feels
Books
Presence
Brilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Every reader will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret.
Unfuck Your Anger
Dr Faith explains here what the hell is going on in your brain and how to retrain yourself to deal with enraging situations more productively and without torpedoing your relationships. This is Your Brain on Anger gives you a heady dose of neuroscience and cultural explanation of what anger is and what it does to you, and then gives you a handy four-step checklist to help you deal with maddening situations after (or before) the fact, guidance on getting over things, and a chapter on forgiveness. Your brain actually knows what it's doing, and anger can be a good thing sometimes--just not if it's ruining your life.
Debugging Your Brain
The human brain is buggy. Sometimes your mind distorts reality, gets frustrated with shortcomings, and spirals out of control. With practice, you can debug your brain. Catch those distortions of reality, transform those frustrations into insight, and short-circuit those downward spirals.
Debugging Your Brain (DYB) is a clear applied psychology book and a concise self-help book.
How Emotions Are Made
Emotions--especially the dark and dishonored ones--hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise.
Here is a much-needed resource filled with revolutionary teachings and breakthrough skills for cultivating a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states through The Language of Emotions.
The Language of Emotions
Emotions--especially the dark and dishonored ones--hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise.
Your Brain At Work
A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday--revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.
The Feeling Of What Happens
In this groundbreaking book, Damasio -- a renowned and revered scientist and clinician who spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness -- explores the biological roots of sentient awareness and its role in survival.
Unfuck Your Anxiety
Anxiety is a survival skill gone haywire. It happens when our brain is working so hard to protect us that it forgets to notice that the danger has passed. It feels like choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking--our brains cut out and we start to make bad decisions--all normal anxiety reactions. Dr. Faith G. Harper, author of the bestselling Unfuck Your Brain and This is Your Brain on Depression packs a ton of knowledge and help into this practical manual.
Molecules of Emotion
Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book "Molecules of Emotion, " Candace Pert -- a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor -- provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.
Emotional First Aid
Prescriptive and unique, Emotional First Aid is essential reading for anyone looking to become more resilient, build self-esteem, and let go of the hurts and hang-ups that are holding them back.
We all sustain emotional wounds. Failure, guilt, rejection, and loss are as much a part of life as the occasional scraped elbow. But while we typically bandage a cut or ice a sprained ankle, our first aid kit for emotional injuries is not just understocked--it's nonexistent.
Fortunately, there is such a thing as mental first aid for battered emotions. Drawing on the latest scientific research and using real-life examples, practicing psychologist Guy Winch, Ph.D. offers specific step-by-step treatments that are fast, simple, and effective.
Emotional Intelligence
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional--and how they together shape our destiny.
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