EmRes in Action
Examples and Discussions about Emotional Transformation and Growth
Performance Anxiety
What if you could be In The Zone of your skills and knowledge and efficiently accomplish your desires in any situation?
Workplace Stress Project
How can we be happy and productive in an inherently stressful workplace? We all want to work in an environment that supports our creativity and skills.
Balanced Emotion Body
Are you struggling to conform to an “ideal” shape or fitness level?
Have you tried all the diets and exercise schemes? Are you frustrated with the diet/fitness/clean-eating culture? Do you find yourself inhabiting a body that is larger after a weight-loss/body-shaping attempt?
How Are Emotions are Made
New findings in behavioral and neuroscience have found that emotions are not wired into our brains at birth or any time after. Emotions are predictions or guesses grounded in previous experience.
What is Stopping Us?
We want to be our best selves. We try to eat well, exercise, meditate and pray, maintain social connections and keep our minds active. But what about our emotional health?
Finding the Motivation
Do you find yourself in a gray area between the “angst to do it” and “the peace of not having acceleration?” Sometimes we linger in inactivity—knowing we have things to do but not feeling active pressure to move forward.
Your Body Is Not A Problem to be Solved
We are surrounded by triggers that tell us our body is wrong – that we do not match up to some “ideal” shape, height, culture, race, and orientation. The constant barrage of misinformation leads us to feel uncomfortable in the body into which we are born.
Emotional First Aid
How would you like to have a remedy for every uncomfortable emotion that comes up in your life? Sound too good to be true? It may sound incredible, but it is true and verifiable.
Success is Good for You?
Where do your dreams, plans and actions fall apart, the launch, the flight, or the landing? Whether the goal is large or small, our success, or lack thereof, is decided by the little beliefs and attitudes that we carry with us in the undercurrent of our subconscious voice.
Playing for the Sharks: Conquering Stage Fright
How is it that no matter how prepared you are, when you step into the spotlight, it is like the fresh hell of terror? It can start the moments, hours, or days before the event.
Not all Emotions are Needed!
I was talking to a friend about Emotional Resolution (EmRes) and how it removes unwanted emotions. My friend got a little irritated with me and said, "I don't want to get rid of my emotions. I like my emotions, my sad and angry, my tears of frustration.
Social Isolation and Loneliness
We are social creatures. Even if you are an introvert, there is a complex array of social interactions that keeps us feeling safe and connected to others in our village of friends, co-workers and family.
Coronavirus Stress and Uncertainty
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought all our anxiety, fears and panic out onto the table in front of us. The stress is constant and mounting as we are told to "Stay in place", "Stay 6-feet apart" and "wash your hands repeatedly"
Use Guilt for Good
It's a new year. And for many, it's a time to make plans and resolutions for improvement in the coming year. But in the end, are we just setting ourselves up for another thrashing by guilt and regret?
Rebounding from Daily News stress
The news feeds are filled with some much information about what it "going wrong". It can throw us into fear, anger, sadness, helplessness, exasperation, and distress. Most of the time we can't actively do anything in response to the news and become frozen in our emotional response.
Your Feelings are Real
I'm a guest blogger on the Emotional Health Institute website :) and this blog is one I posted there.
Taming Your Inner Critic
How do you make peace with that inner chatter that contributes negative self-talk to the flow of thoughts in your head? Some small portion of it may be helpful and keep us on track and noticing necessary details.
Emotional Help for College Stress
With High School complete, the next life step for many graduates is college which includes new responsibilities, financial pressures and scholastic expectations. Many college students are not emotionally equipped for the challenges they will face.
Childbirth Trauma
Pregnancy sets up many expectations. Its an time of expecting that's full of hopes and dreams for the baby: what kind of childhood and life is in store, how can the parent support her on her path to a bright future?
Fear is a Fearsome Thing
I think everyone has, at one time or another, had a fear or phobia of some kind. Some fears are not as bothersome, especially if you don't encounter the fear trigger very often. Like the duck-watching-me fear, anatidaephobia, if you don't encounter many ducks, or are in environments where duck are likely to pop up, then may be relatively manageable.