Psychology at Work | Career Success, Leadership, Communication Skills 45. Building Emotional Fitness for Work & Life with Dr. Emily Anhalt
May 21, 2025
Dr. Emily Anhalt, a clinical psychologist and cofounder of Coa, shares insights on building emotional fitness, a concept she defines as training your emotions like muscles. She emphasizes the importance of resilience and connection in navigating workplace stress and difficult interactions. Anhalt discusses signs of emotional unfitness and practical exercises termed 'emotional push-ups' to enhance self-awareness and playfulness at work. She reveals that these emotional skills are learnable and can vastly improve both personal and professional lives.
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Emotional Fitness Changes Work Experience
- Practicing emotional fitness makes you less reactive and more intentional at work.
- Over time it builds better relationships and a healthier relationship to your job.
Emotional Fitness Defined
- Emotional fitness is an ongoing practice to improve mental and emotional health and face discomfort.
- It emphasizes noticing feelings, understanding them, and acting according to values not impulses.
Spot Signs Of Emotional Unfitness
- Emotional unfitness shows up as shutdown, defensiveness, spiraling, avoidance, or people-pleasing at work.
- Emotional fitness lets you get curious about feelings and choose responses thoughtfully during difficulty.
