Improving Emotional Agility

Emotional agility is the capacity to be healthy with our thoughts, emotions and our being.

Our emotions need a level of gentle acceptance and compassion, as they are not good or bad by themselves. Self-hustling ourselves and trying to bring out only positive emotions does not work...

Using self-compassion to deal with emotions can calm the emotional and physical stress that fuels unhealthy eating behavior:

• Self-directed kindness can ease the flight-or-fight response by activating the soothing part of the brain.
• Once the body relaxes, the to...

Since our goal is to enhance our self-esteem, we need to substitute self-criticism with self-compassion. Specifically, whenever your self-critical inner monologue kicks in, ask yourself what you would say to a dear friend if they were in your situation (we tend to be much more compassionate to fr...