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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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