Plus: why being your 'best self' isn't about being nice or passive, why regulation starts before things go wrong, and how 'polyregulation' can help you up your game.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D. is the author of Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want and the bestselling Permission to Feel. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. You can watch Marc's podcast interviews here.

In this episode we talk about:

Why your "true self" might be the worst version of you
The five-step process for catching yourself before you explode
What to tell yourself in the doorway before you walk into a hard moment
Why breathwork alone won't fix everything you're feeling
The simple fix for total disengagement in your next Zoom meeting
Why your best self should never be a doormat
How to repair after you say the nastiest thing you've ever said
How to build a go-to strategy before you even need it

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