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Key Concepts for Emotional Resilience
I’ve been going through a personal and emotionally tumultuous time. This has triggered an intense but anxious set of reflections: what do I want? Why does this pattern in my life exist? How can I overcome my cyclic hurdles?
To combat these difficult questions, I have explored a lot of emotional and psychological concepts. I can improve on all them. My goal in sharing this ‘dictionary for emotional resilience’ is for myself and others to have a rapid diagnostic tool.
In the next few months I am really challenging myself to stay on top of these concepts. It might be the hardest thing I’ve ever done, frankly.
I have a complicated set of internal processes that can breed insecurity (high ambition, feeling complicated and emotionally un-lovable, determination, high expectations, incredible memory/social debt-credit accounting system… aka a great way to erode trust in others… and a strong sense of fantasy). My primitive brain has gotten too comfortable with emotional fragility.
During this transition phase I’m doing a 3 week write, reel or tweet challenge. Everyday creating some form of content. For the past 24h I have been swamped with so much anxious reflection. To combat it, I created this framework and wrote this article.
