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Identity Needs

2026-01-0611:36

Today Gillian rogers and Jas Mendola look at identity needs and how they influence our emotions.

Emotional Granularity Part II - Increasing Emotional Vocabulary

2024-10-0617:36

In part two of our look into Emotional Granularity we run through a list of emotions on “the emotion wheel” and the associated needs underlying these emotions in order to give you consideration to all the different nuances needed to develop your emotional vocabulary and understanding.

Emotional Granularity Pt. I

2024-10-0312:21

Emotional Granularity is the ability to identify and respond to emotions in all their nuances instead of reacting to the overall wave of the emotional current as washes over a situation. That ability to pause, identify and dig down into that emotional information is essential for good communication and well being. We have a look at where the idea of emotional granularity came from and how it’s linked to our emotional bytes.

Relationships: Social vs Personal Respect

2024-11-1114:15

Should respect be something that is practiced by all or something that is given to all? There are many social nuances to respect related to how we behave and how we treat each other. Should respect be given freely or should it be earned? How do our actions influence the respect we recieve?

Relationships: Respect Pt III: Power Dynamics, Punishment and Creating a Family Culture of Respect

2024-11-0813:19

The final part of our trilogy of respect we look at power dynamics, punishment and how to approach conflict with the aim of understanding and communication instead of control and manipulation. Family is something that can be a constant where we learn lessons about relationships that we can apply to the wider world.

Relationships: Respect Pt II - Disrespect

2024-11-0811:19

Today we take a look at disrespect, conflict and communication respect from a personal and practical point of view as our host examines respect in the context of his relationship with his own daughter.

Relationships: Respect Part I

2024-11-0810:10

Today we look at the concept of respect in a family situation including the evolving nature of respect and what a “respect toolkit” might look like to enable others to feel respected. We also look at interdependence theory and how that relates to respect.

Authentic Love

2024-11-0412:24

Today we contest Limerence with Authentic Love. What is it? What does it look like? How do we cultivate it? How do we recognise and attract authentic love?

Limerence

2024-10-1213:56

The euphoria, the intrusive thoughts, the idealisation, the longings , the questions, Is it love? Or Limerence.

Understanding Emotion: Attribution Theory

2024-11-1313:091

We often attribute someone else’s bad behaviour to their personality but our own bad behaviour to circumstances. Where we attribute cause influences where we place blame and has a huge effect on the meaning we attribute and feelings about that situation. Today we consider attribution and its effect on our emotions.

Emotional Appraisal Roundup

2024-10-2612:01

Today we do a roundup of some of the appraisal concepts explored so far, we look at some of the emotions from a slightly different angle and throw in surprise and passion as well. What exactly are some of the best strategies for dealing with the experience of feelings and being human?

Fear and Anxiety Pt 2

2024-10-2611:20

So good we created part 2. A further look at Fear and anxiety along with some ways of changing your relationship with anxiety.

Fear and Anxiety Part 1

2024-10-2611:28

Today we look at part one of our exploration of Fear and anxiety. What are they? How are they different? What does it do in the brain? Attachment roots of chronic fear and anxiety in relationships. Can we look at fear in a new way?

The Appraisals of Positive Emotions

2024-10-2609:51

Enough of the gloom. We look at the appraisals associated with positive emotions.. Spoiler: pleasantness, certainty and relevance.

Shame, Guilt and Pride

2024-10-2612:41

Today we look at those self-conscious social emotions - shame, guilt and pride. What influences it? How can we understand it?

Regret and Disappointment

2024-10-2612:48

Today we look at disappointment and regret and in particular, what is the relationship of guilt and regret to our values and what appraisals shape these feelings.

Anger and Sadness

2024-10-2609:25

We explore “Modes of Action Readiness”,how these emotions manifest in the body, and the effect that this has on the manifestation of two different types of anger reactions and two different types of sadness.

Anger, Contempt and Hate

2024-10-2612:23

Exploring the negative interpersonal emotions - Anger, Contempt and Hatred. What unconscious processes give rise to these emotional concepts? How are they similar? How are they different?

Invisible Structures Pt II

2024-11-1111:24

Today we look at part 2 of invisible structures. How to know, understand and navigate these invisible structures that operate within us and around us and between us.

Setting Goals and Overcoming Procrastination

2024-10-3111:08

Today we look at how to set goals, we revisit intrinsic motivation and examine different procrastination styles and how to deal with them.

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Fatemeh Aghaiea