How Our Emotional Health Affects Everything Else

In order to be thriving human beings, we need at a fundamental level to be healthy with ourselves, to be healthy with our emotions. And it's only when we move into that space that we are able to forge ways in our communities, in our larger perspective and narrative of mental health and well-being, and in creating a world that we most want to raise our children in. And so these are the skills that I focus on, which is this internal health and well-being, which I can define further, but which I've come to call emotional agility through my work.

Yeah. So this whole idea of emotional agility is very different than this positive psychology, which is like just fuck up and think positive thoughts. And you're saying that doesn't work. It just gets suppressed and it comes out sideways and all sorts of things like binging and purging or eating too much or having binging on sugar, you know, laying and watching Netflix all day. It doesn't actually serve you to be a happy human.