Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
When you’re always “on,” it means you put on your game face in every interaction with others. It’s like being in customer service and having to smile at every single customer that walks in the door.
Do this all day and you’ll probably want to crawl inside your shell when you get home. In this episode, I talk about what this is like from celebrities to baristas to anyone that feels like they need to be “on” all the time.
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How deep do you have to dig in order to figure out who you are? What does it take to respond to the world from that deeper, authentic place inside of you?
It can be a spiritual journey for some, but there are practical methods to understand yourself at the deepest level, too.
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When you live with your romantic partner and their relatives, and your partner doesn’t seem to want that to change, what do you do?
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A listener shared with me that someone called her passive-aggressive. She had no clue that that’s what she was doing, but she asked me how to identify it in herself and how and why it comes about. I address this very important subject in this article.
The article below is an addendum to today’s episode. Also, in this episode, I bring up a very difficult situation where someone has a husband who is not only disabled, which can be challenging enough, but also abusive. The wife is stuck and doesn’t know what to do.
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So you did something you regret, and now you walk around feeling guilty all the time.
Guilt isn’t something you keep. It’s supposed to be a message that disappears after you’ve learned the lesson. If you carry guilt long after the event, it may be time to release it.
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