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Emotional Intelligence Episodes

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March 18, 2024

From Comfort Food to Comfort Emotions: A Culinary Approach to Feelings

Explore the intriguing relationship between emotions, perceptions, and memories on The Light Inside. Our guest, Kim Korte, author of "Yucky, Yummy, Savory, Sweet: Understanding the Flavors of Emotions," joined us to discuss her innovative approach to emotional awareness through the lens of food and cooking. Kim shared insights on how we're not born with preset emotional responses, but rather have the ability to shape our emotions. She introduced the concept of emotional recipes, which allows us...
Guest: Kim Korte
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Nov. 25, 2022

Trauma Triggers: How Addressing Our Blind Spots Increases Emotional Intelligence

Blind spots. We each have them. In the context of personal change, why is it we often settle for "good enough?” Our past emotional traumas amplify deflection and uncomfortable avoidance in most of us. with psychological blind spots that everyone else can see but us. So just how do we find these answers? - with a little daring, some honest reflection, and self-examination. One of the toughest self-awareness missions you can undertake is a direct seek-and-destroy attack on your own pockets of ...
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Aug. 11, 2022

Fit to Be Tied: Unknotting Our Emotional Reactivity

Conflict. It often becomes our greatest source of confrontation, yet that which is not addressed, often goes unanswered. Our emotions, at times being influential in this very nature of human struggle, frequently viewing our turmoil as arising through our interactions with others. Jungian Psychologist M. Ester Harding Tells us- “Conflict is the beginning of Consciousness.” Yet, as one considers this conundrum of paradigm, perhaps It is not with others that we have the greatest conflicts - instead...
Oct. 27, 2020

Two Minute Tuesday - Head Start To Riches

Head Start To Riches Education is Empowerment. As a recent opportunity to partner with Head Start 2 Riches Team- an educational company that offers a unique wealth building course for children. Their mission is to bring awareness and insight to children, instilling within them the knowledge to reach for their dreams and achieve. We shared this inspiring message answering what head start we are giving at a young age which allowed us to reach for our awareness of success- empowering the leaders o...