Hello and welcome to this episode of ESG Fitness Podcast. I've got Haley with me. Haley, how are you?

I'm really well. How are you? I'm good. You were just telling me that you've started an emotional

intelligence course. Yeah, I have because I'm, turns out, I'm not very good at being able to describe the emotion that I'm feeling.

And I'll say things like, it's interesting or this is funny and I don't mean that.

Actually, what I mean is I'm upset by this or this disappointed me.

And so I think to be a better coach, I need to be

able to find a language for my own emotions. And I think that will then help me find or find

the right questions to deliver better coaching. So that is the premise of why I'm doing it.

Yeah. So much of what we do

and our actions are so based on our emotions, but also I think a lack of understanding of how

we're actually feeling in the moment. And so being able to take that step back and acknowledging

this is how I'm feeling. I can act on it or I can just observe it and then

be proactive around it. So it's kind of that's what I'm only very early doors. That's like the first

two lessons. Most people don't really know how they feel and I put myself in that as well. I guess

it's what you unpack a lot in either journaling or therapy or talking to people about it. But I was booking flights back to Scotland to see my family, which is such a nice thing to do. But I was quite sad about it. And I was like, I feel weird about going back. But I did just, when you were just talking about how you describe things, like, oh that's interesting or you know I'm like sad isn't really it's not that I'm actually sad but there is

something that I'm feeling that it's close to the feeling of sad that I can't really describe and I

don't know why that is because there's nothing sad about it like you know but I think most people

just stop there and they're like, I have no idea why

I'll just either avoid it and not go because I have negative connotations with it or never

actually figure out what that is.

You're absolutely right.

People then put a comforting behaviour on top of it, whether it be food, whether it be

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