How To Be WellnStrong

34: Learning to Let Go & Cultivate Emotional Intelligence | Shad Berry

January 02, 2024 Jacqueline Genova Episode 34
How To Be WellnStrong
34: Learning to Let Go & Cultivate Emotional Intelligence | Shad Berry
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Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive, express, and regulate our emotions. It’s a skill that requires constant work, but one that acts as a superpower, profoundly improving how we navigate challenges, opportunities, and even relationships. Join me today as I speak with Shad Berry about how we can grow in emotional intelligence to lead a more integrated, balanced, and grounded life, and no longer be ruled by anxiety, insecurity, people-pleasing, image management, and shame.
 
What you'll learn from this episode:

  • Powerful tools to help you cultivate sustainable habits that increase peace in your life
  • How to surrender our need for control & let go of ego
  • The transformative power of practicing stillness and being silent
  • Strategies to help us overcome rumination about the past, and placing our identity in Christ to truly experience fulfillment
  • & So much more!

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Shad's story
Being content in the waiting seasons
Unhealthy habits & the need for control
Channeling the need for control into other areas of life, e.g. perfectionism
How to surrender in the struggle
Strategies to help alleviate the desire to control
How the limbic brain can't differentiate between time
Doing hard things with other people
The importance of feeling your emotions
How emotions mask each other
Control, anxiety, & rage as impairments of fear
Immediate gratification vs long-term payoff
Healthy outlets for addictions
The determining factor that informed how Olympic athletes fared after their sport
The importance of journeying in
How not to base worth on performance
The importance of having an inner circle
Why the concept of balance isn't real
Our needs are met in relationships
How loneliness can actually shrink brains
The double-edge sword of social media
The difference between a dream & a fantasy
How you can be surrounded by people but still feel alone
How social media feeds ego
Being aware of how we use social media
The 3 S's
How to get in touch & in tune with your emotional state
The power of silence
Paying attention to how impulsively we reach towards things
The challenge & fears behind silence
How to address intrusive thoughts
Why there's no such thing as nature vs nurture
Learning to cast your anxieties on God
Creating a healthy routine to cultivate a strong mindset
The power of doing hard things