Today I'm talking with Dr. Mark Brackett. Mark is the founding director of the Yale Center for

Emotional Intelligence. He's the author of Permission to Feel, and he's the author of his

brand new book, Dealing with Feeling. Dr. Brackett has developed a framework that helps kids,

parents, and educators build emotional literacy, skills for recognizing, naming, and working with emotions in ways

that help us thrive and get in touch with our capability. I've known Mark for a while,

and he is one of my favorite people to talk with. So you are really in for a treat. I think you'll

think about emotions in a different way. You'll think about coping in a different way.

And without a doubt, you'll end with practical strategies you can use today.

I'm Dr. Becky, and this is Good Inside.

We'll be back right after this.

We'll be back right after this. So happy to have you here today.

Thank you.

There's so many things I want to talk about.

But let's just start with you and kind of what brings you to this work. So you spent your whole career basically studying emotions, right?

And as parents' emotions are at the center of our lives.

Parents' emotions, kids' emotions, emotions about in-laws. There's a lot of emotions. I just want to know what

really drew you to this work in the first place. Well, since we're talking with a parenting expert,

I'll be frank. I just feel like my emotional life was kind of robbed for me as a kid.

I had terrible abuse in my childhood and a lot of bullying and just felt like there was no place to go with my feelings.

So what did I do? I ate them. I cried them. I banged my head them. I did everything that you

would call unhealthy to deal with them. And just before we continue, because I know that that led

into so much research and you really like took that and turned it into a whole journey, all those

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