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Emotional Fitness: Dr. Ethan Kross On Dealing With Difficult Feelings, Controlling Your Inner Voice & The Science of Emotional Regulation
Dr. Ethan Kross is a renowned psychologist, bestselling author, and expert on controlling the conscious mind.
This conversation explores his innovative approach to mental fitness and how our emotions function as an operating system. We examine why difficult emotions serve a purpose, how our inner dialogue shapes our reality, and why we have more control over our responses than we realize.
Along the way, he helps me analyze my own patterns of thought spirals and disaster-casting.
Ethan’s work offers a pattern interrupt for those caught in mental turbulence and a roadmap to greater agency…
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