To Emotional Awareness and Beyond

08/17/22 • 31 min

Mindset Unlimited: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Women Leaders

To emotional awareness and, beyond that, to USING that awareness is this week’s topic. As we explored last week, you must first find the emotions and allow space for them. Following that, you can learn how to use them in a helpful rather than harmful way. This is also called being responsive rather than reactive in our behavior. Reactivity isn't just lashing out. Another facet of reactivity is shutting down or avoiding. Both are rooted in survival mode, which is a natural mode when you haven't had room to develop an understanding and relationship to your emotions. This space is also critical in your relationships. First, it keeps you from placing your emotions on other people. Second, it allows space for other people to have emotions because it keeps you from taking responsibility for emotions that aren’t yours.
In this episode of Unlimited, I explore tools that support emotional awareness and beyond that to proactively using that awareness.

Some of what I talk about in this episode includes:

What emotional awareness isn't about
Meaning making from emotions
The emotional life cycle
What is your part and owning it
The emotional inventory tool

LINKS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
Deep Self-Care to Shift Habits
More Self-Control Is Not Always the Answer
Planting Seeds to Take Confident Action
Making Decisions I Can Trust
Out of a Funk play list
Ask Val (anonymous form)
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Some of what I talk about in this episode includes:

What emotional awareness isn't about
Meaning making from emotions
The emotional life cycle
What is your part and owning it
The emotional inventory tool

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Previous Episode

Fantastic Emotions and Where to Find Them

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Fantastic emotions and where to find them guides you to where you begin to access your power within your emotions. You often hear emotions spoken of as powerful. However, it's really YOU who are powerful. The problem is we aren’t taught to understand the dynamics of our emotions. Instead, we are conditioned to avoid unpleasant emotions and simultaneously hope that the enjoyable ones will eventually be earned. This leaves us feeling at the mercy of our emotions instead of empowered by them.

In this episode of Unlimited, I engage gaining clarity and finding the empowerment inside your emotions.

Some of what I talk about in this episode includes:

Emotional intelligence vs emotional awareness vs emotional literacy
Expanding emotional awareness
Developing your emotional language
Understanding emotional expression
Noticing trigger patterns
Separating experience from identity

LINKS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
Understanding Your Stress Language
How to Stop Reacting and Start Responding
Shift from Drained to Motivated
Deep Self-Care to Shift Habits
Ask Val (anonymous form)
Apply to be coached on the podcast
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Become Empowered By Your Emotions with Dr. Mavis Mazhura

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Become empowered by your emotions, rather than stuck in them, by understanding their purpose or lack thereof. It's important to remember that though "feelings aren’t facts," they still matter. They are an intrinsic part of our whole humanness. Supporting emotional wellbeing starts with embracing the value of emotional information. Despite some of that information being outdated or maladaptive, it can still provide direction for what support, boundaries, changes, etc. you need to create a more enjoyable life. This knowledge can empower healthier decisions for individuals and organizations. (And relationships but that's for a different episode.)
In this episode of Unlimited, I invited Dr. Mavis Mazhura to join me in a conversation about how to become empowered by your emotions.

Some of what we talk about in this episode includes:

How emotions feed holistic wellbeing
The role of emotions in corporate change
When emotions get you stuck vs help you move
Separating emotions and identity
Spiritual bypassing blocks to emotional processing
A 5-step process to manage an emotion

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
Dr. Wayne Dyer – The Shift (Taking Your Life From Ambition to Meaning)
Resmaa Menakem

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Navigating the Rapids and the Waves of Life: 10 Lessons for Managing Emotions for Success

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