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Tag: emotional intelligence

A big week

A series of fortunate events.

anxiety, business, career, change, depression, diversity, emotional intelligence, fear, future, jerk brain, job, leadership, lessons learned, medication, mental health, OCD, perspective, phd, podcast, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, self image, therapy, wellness, work

Correspondence

Recovery from depression has changed how I relate to people.

anxiety, career, change, depression, emotional baggage, emotional intelligence, exhaustion, fatigue, future, hiding, jerk brain, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perfectionism, perspective, pretending, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, self image, self-care, self-regulation, therapy, toxic positivity, wellness

The unknown

Getting better at living with uncertainty.

advice, anxiety, change, covid19, creativity, depression, emotional baggage, emotional intelligence, fatigue, fear, future, job, leadership, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, philosophy, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, self-care, self-regulation, therapy, wellness, wisdom, work

Language

Once more for the people in the back: How we talk about mental health matters.

advice, anxiety, depression, emotional intelligence, fear, inclusion, leadership, mental health, OCD, perspective, PTSD, recovery, reflections, resources, therapy, what to say, wisdom

Call for a substitution

Language matters. Words have resonance. Here’s an easy trick to see if you’re being a jerk with what you’re saying.

advice, anxiety, depression, emotional intelligence, inclusion, leadership, mental health, role model, what to say

How can it not know what it is?

How am I a human resource? Simple, I’m not.

4IR, behavioral economics, career, covid19, diversity, economy, emotional intelligence, future, inclusion, leadership, philosophy, podcast, work

It’s always Day 1

The Amazon.com management philosophy translates well to a framework for mental health wellness.

business, depression, emotional intelligence, jerk brain, mental health, recovery, therapy

Let’s talk about therapy

There are many misconceptions about psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Here’s a bit about my experience with therapy.

anxiety, depression, emotional baggage, emotional intelligence, mental health, therapy

Asynchronicity

I’m living in this odd space between feeling well and balanced and feeling anxious and fractured.

depression, emotional intelligence, self image, self-regulation

Surge protectors exist for a reason

Tapering off of medication means that I’m experiencing emotion in a way I haven’t in a long time. It’s bumpy. I wish there was some kind of thing I could just plug in to smooth it out. Spoiler alert: It isn’t that simple.

anxiety, depression, emotional intelligence, medication, mental health, self-regulation

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