Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote and TED Talk speaker, and author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. In this episode, Eric and Guy discuss his book Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts.

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In This Interview, Guy Winch and I Discuss Emotional First Aid and …

• His book, Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts
• Understanding that we need to tend to our emotional wounds just as we would physical wounds
• Building emotional resiliency by addressing these small wounds
• How to treat the emotional wound of rejection
• Identifying exactly what the hurt feelings are
• How the brain registers physical and emotional pain in the same way
• Learning to improve low self-esteem
• Writing exercises to help deal with rejection and failure
• How ruminating can easily become a habit and lead to depression
• The dangers of rumination: stewing vs. doing
• How rumination is vulnerable to distraction, engage your mind somewhere else
• What works and doesn’t work in building self-esteem
• Building self-compassion
• The detective mindset vs. a harmful and self-critical mindset

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