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Emotions

Emotions

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Teaser: What Makes a Healthy Mind? Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose

With & For is launching in January 2024! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app. In this preview clip, With & For guest Dr. Richie Davidson—a pioneer in contemplative neuroscience—shares how his research on the neuroscience of emotion and meditation has led him to identify four pillars of well-being and human flourishing.

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A Practice Questions to Promote Love, Meaning and Purpose

Pivot from anxiety to meaning to discover yourself and your purposes. Find a trusted friend or small group and work through these questions.

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Want to become more present, healthy, and connected? Pay attention to your body (Part 2)

Our emotions are linked to how we make meaning of our lives, and attending to our embodied emotional selves leads to spiritual health.

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Want to become more present, healthy, and connected? Pay attention to your body (Part 1)

Thrive Fellow, Lauren Van Vranken, offers practices for reconnecting to our bodies and asks us to think about our relationship to our embodied selves.

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The Friendship Edit: Creating Meaningful Connections in a Digital Age

Our relationships are central to our thriving; ideas about how to “clean up” and improve the quality of relationships.  

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Can a Hug a Day Keep the Doctor Away?

You can get closer to those you care about with a little practice.

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The Balm of Being Loved and Held

How does love contributing to thriving? The practice of the 5 B's of love is explained here.

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A Practice in Emotional Regulation: Tending to our Inner Selves

Practice attention and emotion regulation using the following.

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Moral Elevation (Part 2): Practices for Elevating Ourselves and Our World

Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Susan Mangan provides research-based activities to help us experience the positive emotion of elevation.

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Moral Elevation (Part 1): The Snowball Effect of Small Inspirations

Dr. Susan Mangan explains the role and benefits of moral elevation in inspiring us to help our communities.

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A Practice: 4-Step Mindful Breathing Exercise

Practicing mindful breathing can help us pause, check in with our bodies, manage our emotions, and redirect our attention.

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Coping with Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Process Heartache We Don’t Understand

How can we make sense of loss and heartache? Guest blogger, Dr. Stephanie Trudeau, discusses ambiguous loss, sharing three ways we can cope with it.