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Hello Anxiety: 3 EQ Tips to Navigate Worry

Anxiety is a pervasive challenge; learning more about EQ helps to wrangle it back into the background.

Illuminate: What DO You Do with Your Inner Critic?

We all have that little voice inside: ‘You didn’t do that right/ fast enough/ well enough.’ How do you treat yours… and could you treat it more kindly?

Talk to Yourself Like You Would Your Best Friend

Recent research suggests that speaking kindly to yourself helps you cope with challenging situations. But how exactly do you change self-talk?

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Start Your Day on PURPOSE: Choose A Morning Ritual

Recent research suggests those with a morning ritual feel that their life is more meaningful. Set your daily intention by building a morning ritual… here’s how.

Illuminate: Want Empathy? 3 Phrases To Ask for It

We all need a good listening ear sometimes. But how do we get it when it isn’t offered? Here are three phrases to communicate the need for empathy with others. Try them out!

What Is The Root Belief of Your Perfectionism?

No one loves making mistakes, but some of us are more afraid of making a mistake than others. If you are one of these people, take a mindful moment to better understand where your fear comes from.

Staying Sharp: 5 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

The dogma for decades was that adult brains couldn’t generate any new brain cells, but new evidence suggests the opposite. Here are 5 ways…

Illuminate: Where Do You Want to Go?

Take a moment to clarify your (emotional, professional, physical) destination + represent it in a fun way.

What Relationship Pattern Holds You Back?

Everyone has their own pattern when it comes to relationships. ‘Attachment Styles’ have been studied in psychology for years, and its wisdom is now starting to find its way into everyday relationships. What’s your attachment style, and how can you best work with it?

$116,000 Per Month and Bankrupt: Why Some NFL Players Lose at The Game of Life – and What We Can All Learn From It

Professional football players are “stars” – but are they successful? Some manage to build a life off the field – most don’t.

Best Generation for EQ?

Newest research looks at EQ generational differences plus the strengths and weaknesses of each age.

Cultivate Growth Mindset with Unlikely Gratitude

Unlikely Gratitude: Finding the opportunity for growth in an otherwise, mundane, annoying, or horrible situation.

Illuminate: What’s Behind Your Mask?

How often do we wear masks? Do we actually spend most (or all) of our lives wearing a protective costume so that we can hide who we really are? Learn about your unique masks in this simple + meaningful activity.

Want a Good Long Life? 1 Clear Answer from Research

“It’s useful to know it’s a choice worth making.” The results from an 80-year-long research study clearly identify what we should focus on for a long and fulfilled life.

Your Limiting Belief Demystified

It’s prickly, but it’s worth it. Learn more about your own limiting belief + tools for working through it, all thanks to the person who most annoys you. Take this moment to learn compassion- for yourself and for them.

7 Tips + Resources to Build Emotional Intelligence

From a chart that deciphers the meaning of dozens of feelings to a video that will change your understanding of empathy, here are 10 free tips + resources to cultivate emotional intelligence.

Illuminate: Who drives you NUTS?

Your ‘Sandpaper Person’ illuminates your own personal beliefs + opportunities for growth. This articles breaks down how to identify + learn from the person who most challenges you.

EQ Research on Growing Our Capacity to Grow

What does it mean to “grow” as a person, and what’s the role of EQ? New research findings on global emotional intelligence show us what’s supporting and inhibiting growth.

Illuminate: Crafting Your Noble Goal

Three steps to tapping into your guiding purpose. Today’s the day to create or refine your understanding of what fuels you + fuels the world.

Eat Mindfully: 7 Tips for Practicing Emotional Intelligence with Meals

Practicing emotional intelligence around how we eat it is an often forgotten key to digestive health, according to digestive psychologist Caspar Poyck. Here are 6 ways to eat mindfully and feel better physically.

Illuminate: What’s Your Brain’s Extreme Habit?

A guide to tempering it for better decision making. Dive into your own brain’s extreme preferences + explore some tools for teaching your brain that there is indeed a different way to look at things.

The Science of Unconscious Bias: What, Why, & How

A growing body of research suggests that unconscious bias impacts all of our decisions. Here’s a 5-step guide to overcome unconscious bias with self-awareness.

Three Breaths for Lowering Your Cortisol Level

The science + practice behind mindful breathing. Take five minutes to give yourself the gift of resetting your nervous system.

Craft Your Personal Affirmation in Five Steps

Effective affirmations are self-created, meaningful, and dig into one’s core values. Here’s a guide to creating one for yourself that will stick.

Three Steps to Identifying Your Goals + Obstacles

The only person who has the responsibility to prioritize you IS you. Take a mindful moment to build self-awareness, set your goals, and Choose Yourself.

Solomon’s Paradox: How to Unleash the Wisdom Within

Solomon’s Paradox is people’s tendency to think more wisely about other people’s problems than their own. Researchers have proven it to be real – and found a simple technique to overcome it. Learn how and get a free worksheet to put it into practice!

7 Decision Making Insights Everyone Should Know

Warning: These 7 decision making insights are based on the latest neuroscience research and could lead to permanently improved decision making.

From Destruction to Life: A Case Study

When a child’s behavior devolves toward destruction, how can they find a way back toward health? A powerful story of how emotional intelligence helps.

Better Decisions – Emotional Intelligence & Long-Term Thriving

Decisions descisions… how do we make them, and can we make better decisions? Contrary to common belief, emotions may just be the key.

The Life or Death Science of Community

Relationships are the bedrock, the foundation, of a long and satisfying life. And according to a growing body of research, building community is quite literally a matter of life and death. So what helps us build community?

How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship

Learning your attachment style might completely change how you (and your partner) fight, play, and build a relationship.

What Are They Thinking: EQ Tool for Conflicts

Want help to solve a conflict? You need to get to the root of the problem, which is the disparity between the two sides’ perceptions of what’s happening. This tool helps you do exactly that.

Practice of Practice: Free Mini-Course

How do you get better and reach your goals? Practice! But what’s the best way? Here’s a free minicourse where you’ll find out, in just 5 emails

Reaching Across the Divide In an Uber Polarized World

The other day, I heard a girl on the street say, “I saw a guy with a Trump shirt on, and I literally crossed the street.” It seems she’s not the only one, as division has reached all time highs. This is the story of one man’s journey to start reaching across the divide – and how we can do the same.

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