Emotional Strength and Mastery

Our guest today is Dr. Joan Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg is dedicated to guiding individuals to achieve their highest potential by helping them create, master, and sustain desired changes. She is a featured expert in the critically acclaimed documentary films I Am and The Hidden Epidemic, and she has been seen on CNN’s American Morning, OWN, and PBS stations nationally, along with other appearances across TV, radio, and print media. She is founder and creator of Emotional Mastery™, the only systemized emotional training and conditioning approach that teaches lay persons and mental health clinicians alike how to foster unwavering emotional strength, self confidence, and self-esteem. She serves on John Assaraf’s Scientific Advisory Board, has one patent in performance skill development, is a published author (Mean Girls, Meaner Women) and is published in multiple professional books and psychology journals.

Emotional Mastery

Essentially, emotional mastery is being responsive in a situation instead of being reactive. In this state, you will be more resilient, calm, and peaceful.

Emotional Strength

Feeling and believing that you are capable in the world takes mastery of the upsets and frustrations of your emotions in order to be productive. Additionally, you need to be resourceful — both independent and dependent, not afraid to ask for help or see it as a failure to ask for help. In doing all of this, we acknowledge our own strengths and weaknesses and moving forward as much as we can.

Elements to Tackle: Things that get in the way

1. What people think (only looking for the bad things, negative self talk, etc.)
2. How they think it (patterns of thinking)
3. How people experience and express their feelings (finding ways to handle feelings)
4. The actions people take (how people choose to live)

Anxiety and 90 second Waves

Anxiety is unexpressed feeling. Not experiencing feelings or expressing feelings lead to this feeling of anxiety. Staying present and riding the wave of feelings you come to tolerate what is actually happening. From that point you eventually reach a point where the wave of feelings leads to insight. The body informs the mind when it comes to feelings. We have physical symptoms of our feelings, bodily sensations that linger for no more than 90 seconds (per wave). When we allow ourselves to feel that feeling physically and emotionally, and ride the waves out, lean into them, we gain insight, emotional strength, self esteem, and more.

Check out Dr Joan’s Website here!

Listener Question:

I’m on your program, and I am having a problem with my spouse. Every Saturday he goes out for ice cream, and he’s upset that I won’t eat it. What do I do?

Involve your spouse or family. You’re going to be more focused, more healthy, more energetic. Enlist their help so you can reap those benefits. When you ask for help, you will find that it can really turn things around for the whole family. The other options are to say nothing. You can make the food they are used to, but in a more healthful way.

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You are worthy. Dare to live a life that matters.