EP 45: The Gift of Unpleasant Feelings and Emotional Mastery with Dr. Joan Rosenberg

Dr. Joan Rosenberg, the author of "90 Seconds to a Life You Love" joins us for episode 45 and shares part of her personal journey from childhood that inspired her to pursue emotional mastery. The desire for confidence, authenticity and belonging lies within our capacity to sit with both pleasant and unpleasant emotions and Joan Rosenberg PhD teaches us how to do that in this episode.  We review the Rosenberg Reset which lays out the steps towards emotional confidence and why congruence is so essential to our wellbeing. This podcast episode is ripe with insight, moments you won't want to miss and will leave you feeling more empowered to live life more fully. 

Joan I. Rosenberg, PhD, creator of Emotional Mastery™ and Emotional Mastery Training™, is a highly regarded expert psychologist, master clinician, trainer and consultant. As a cutting edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, trainer and speaker, Joan has shared her life-changing ideas and models for emotional mastery, change and personal growth in professional and educational seminars, psychotherapy sessions and graduate psychology teaching.

https://drjoanrosenberg.com/joans-story/

We cover:

• Dr. Rosenbergs early childhood and how it shaped her sense of belonging 
• Why emotional confidence was something Dr. Rosenberg realized early on in life would help her wade through life’s ups and downs 
• Who her early influences were 
• The 90 second rule of emotions
• How we can make use of feelings and emotions 
• Why pleasant feelings/sensations are difficult to sit with 
• How we can practice the Rosenberg Reset to master unpleasant feelings 
• What type of pleasant feelings are difficult for people and why
• What a compliment really means and why it’s important to accept them 
• Grief and 3 recommended practices to work with it 
• The importance of congruence in our inner and outer worlds
• Why speaking up is the pathway towards emotional confidence 
• How and when Dr. Rosenberg recommends we speak up 
• Why insights usually follow expression 
• Grief: how to embrace the relationship even if the person has passed on 

Referenced: 

• Dr. Daniel Siegel 
• Katie and Gay Hendricks
• Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's book, "A Stoke of Insight"  

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