Managing our emotions is maybe a short-term solution sometimes, but it's really not a good long-term one.

And that feeling our emotions really actually brings us the freedom and the joy that we want.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with

enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kistler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

Today I'm really excited to start a series that we're going to do on emotions.

And I've been wanting to do this for a long time, and I'm very excited for it.

And for this first episode to kind of kick off the series, I want to go into the process of

emotional development that we all go through as we start to work through each of the

emotions that we're going to discuss in the series.

So, Joe, I'd love to just start with, how do you see the process of emotional development in the work that you've

been doing? I do think that there's some pretty clear steps of emotional development. I think

what's interesting to me, before we even get into that, is that, you know, I've been a student of

human development a lot, you know, from Terry O'Fallon's work to the integral work to, you know,

earlier stuff like Pige and all. And, and I think that almost all of that development work

has been done around the intellect and very little has been done around the emotions. And so I've looked quite a bit

to look for like what I think are coherent emotional development steps and I have a really

hard time finding them. And I think some degree is that people who move more from their emotional

experience, they're not intellectual writers so they don't write

it down and vice versa. So I think that that's where a lot of the work is fall short. Also,

I just might not have found it yet. So I just want to start with that. But what's interesting

to me is that the emotional development cycle as I see it is very, very similar to a lot of the cognitive

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