In this episode, Suzanne discusses the emotional state of anger. She offers tips on how to tackle it along with some of her own personal experiences.

She pulls insight from an article titled, The Lifespan of An Emotion, found on https://www.livingthemess.com/the-lifespan-of-an-emotion/ to reveal that emotions only really last 90 seconds. This scientific finding opens up the question, so then why do some emotions seem to linger on forever? Listen in on the podcast to hear Suzanne's analysis of this question.

As always, Suzanne encourages using yoga, mindfulness, and breath work in order to help overcome anger...

• Yoga gives you time to inward reflect. 
• Mindfulness keeps you present enough to deal with the emotions as opposed to avoiding it. 
• Breath work helps to calm the nervous system and allows you to access the parts of the brain needed to resolve anger.

     
        "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and excepting the other person to die." 
                                                                                                                                                -Buddha

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In this episode Suzanne continues the discussion about the Six Basic Emotions. This week she unpacks the emotional state of SURPRISE.

She discusses that SURPRISE can be two-fold. It can be both bad or good. It can be an incident that scares you or an experience that brings you great happiness.

Harnessing SURPRISE, both bad and good:

• Mindfulness: non-judgement, non-attachement
• Breathing: awareness of the breath in various emotional states
• -Yoga: 
  • sun salutation to relieve tension in the body 
  • mantra meditation to relax the mind

​Suzanne shares a few of her own experiences with surprise, both good & bad. She then invites you to get out there and treat your loved ones to a GOOD surprise. 

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In this episode Suzanne discusses the touchy topic of fear. She shares some of her personal experiences with fear and how she has not allowed them to stand in the way of her success.

She begins by pointing out that avoiding fear can often times make it worse. We are better off leaning into our fears as opposed to running away from them.

She discusses her current motivating factor for addressing her fears...the fear of passing fearful feelings along to her kids.

By seeing fear through a growth mindset lens, kids and adults alike can learn from their experiences with fear. The Big Life Journal is a great option for opening up discussions with kids on overcoming fear through a growth mindset.

In this episode, some suggestions on how to harness fear are...
-Consider a mantra such as "train your brain to be stronger than your emotions"
-Talk to yourself, view yourself as the observer and talk your way through your fear.
-Use mindfulness & the breath to calm the nervous system.
-Educate yourself on the nuances of brain chemistry.
-Use essential oils
-Use a Tiger's Eye gem stone: hold it in the left hand, release fear out of the right hand.
-Write down your fears & burn them(obviously, take caution with this suggestion).

 Here are some references/resources mentioned within this week's podcast episode: 

1. Big Life Journal (for kids)
2. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
3. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Essential Oil: Stress Away by Young Living
5. Crystal: Tiger's Eye 
6. Intention: "Train your brain to be stronger than your feelings/emotions"
7. Song: Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons

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