Emotional Wellness can help if:

• You regularly feel stressed and overwhelmed by your work-life, relationship, to-do list, etc.
• Your emotions feel overwhelming and all-consuming more often than you’d like.
• You lack confidence in certain situations.
• You have a tendency to overreact and then feel guilty for how you responded.
• You compare yourself to others.
• You have a hard time dealing with the unexpected challenges life throws your way and find yourself numbing out with unhealthy habits.

Emotional Wellness is about building self-awareness, strengthening our capacity to navigate difficult emotions, without them taking us completely off course, it’s about building empathy for ourselves and others, giving us a framework to enjoy the richness of our human experiences, continue to feel grounded and connected through the the hard times, and strengthen all our relationships. It’s often said that IQ get’s you in the door and EQ (emotional intelligence) get’s you to the top.

“We’ve had a century of overemphasis on academic abilities as the key to success in life, but that is only part of the picture. If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”
-Daniel Goleman, Lead EQ Researcher and Coach

You aren’t preprogrammed with emotional intelligence. It’s acquired.

“You see it in marriage; you see it everywhere. This emotional skill is a universally useful ability, but it has to be learned because we aren’t wired that way. The good news is that the brain is plastic throughout life—it is shaped through repeated training and experience. That means we can acquire emotional skills. Mindfulness is a good example—the ability to notice what is going on as it arises and to pause before we respond is a crucial emotional skill. Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
— Daniel Goleman

I think of mindfulness as a moment to moment awareness of our internal experiences as well as our external circumstances.

Emotional wellness + mindfulness means we’re brining some awareness to what’s happening on the inside for us, we’re building a healthier relationship with yourself, your internal experience (thoughts and emotions) and learning skills to navigate difficult emotions and situations, like everyday stress or anxiety about your relationship or your work-life.

If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by anger or frustration and felt the pangs of anxiety, regret or stress, strengthening your emotional wellness and bringing in some mindfulness practices  could help you feel more grounded and easeful in your inner and outer world. And for most people it can have a powerful effect on the quality of your relationships and our ability to be an effective leader.

Here’s the thing, trying to control your distracting thoughts doesn’t work and suppressing or avoiding the hard emotions only amplifies them. And let’s face it, those pesky suppressed emotions are bound to bubble up to the surface eventually, usually when you least want them to.

Mindfulness + Emotional Wellness is woven into the fabric of everything that I do. They are key ingredients in making the impact we want to make.

Whether that means solving the dysfunction in your romantic relationship or improving the quality of collaboration with your team.

Mindfulness + Emotional Wellness  is always a part of the formula because you can’t get to where you want to be if you don’t sort out what’s standing in your way internally.

Most of my clients have never meditated prior to working with me. And that’s fine!

Having some guidance when starting a meditation practice is key. We will start exactly where you are and make it as simple and easy to incorporate into your busy life as possible. I will walk you through it step by step, teach you specific practices that will feeling nourishing.

So if you’ve been “Meh” about meditation up till now, don’t worry.