Emotional Agility: How to Better Handle Difficult Moments and Feelings: Episode 243
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
'Emotional Agility' is your ability to be with and accept your strong emotions while letting them better inform you of the next actions to take in your life. As you can already tell this is not an easy thing or a natural thing when you feel big emotions like fear, worry, anxiety, regret, or resentment.
Typically what would happen when these strong emotions come up, we either: avoid or suppress the emotion and try to just move on, just react and make another bad decision in these stressed states, for others they obsess over the thoughts and the emotions overtake and dibilate them into not doing anything.
Yet in this episode you will hear about "emotional agility" and how you can develop yourself to better handle high emotions to stay connected as a couple and acting toward your best interests.
Resources For Your Relationship:
- Book mentioned in podcast, Emotional Agility HERE
- Register for the upcoming FREE webclass on "How to Have the Hard Conversations".
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring |
| 0:05.3 | relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same |
| 0:10.7 | team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.4 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about emotional agility, how to better handle difficult moments and feelings. |
| 0:24.0 | Not going to lie, you guys. We are in kind of a difficult moment, something in our life, and we'll |
| 0:29.5 | share some more details later in the episode. We have some circumstances, some things that are |
| 0:34.1 | showing up in our life and some of the decisions that we have made. |
| 0:39.1 | And so we are feeling many feelings right now. |
| 0:42.4 | And to be honest, Darren, what did you say right before we started recording? |
| 0:46.4 | Well, it's feeling like one of the most difficult times for me. |
| 0:50.9 | And again, sharing more of what we're going through we're open about that and that's just how it |
| 0:57.9 | feels and i just think your marriage as you're listening your life you know it's just not without |
| 1:03.7 | its challenges and it's not without those challenges on outside circumstances which ours kind of |
| 1:09.5 | are related to or maybe within your |
| 1:11.6 | marriage, maybe it's, you know, about the times that we're all going through. So it is really about |
| 1:18.3 | how do we handle our emotions? Because when you think of it, when you're going through a difficult |
| 1:24.4 | challenge or a difficult timer moment, what is it we're |
| 1:28.2 | really talking about? The feeling about it. That's really, that's what it is. That's what is happening. |
| 1:35.1 | It wouldn't feel challenging if it wasn't the emotions that you were having about it. Exactly. Yeah. So |
| 1:40.3 | think for your life, you know, right now. Is there something that you as a couple are, |
| 1:45.9 | quote unquote, struggling with or that feels harder? Maybe it's a challenging time in parenting. |
| 1:50.9 | Maybe something is really going on within your marriage. I mean, that's what we talk to couples |
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