Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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CHAPTER 4
BUILDING EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
SELF-SABOTAGE IS ULTIMATELY JUST a product of low
emotional intelligence.
To move on with our lives in a healthy, productive, and
stable way, we need to understand how our brains and
bodies work together. We need to understand how to interpret
feelings, what different emotions mean, and what
to do when we are faced with big, daunting sensations
that we don’t know how to handle.
We are going to specifically focus on aspects of emotional
intelligence that relate to self-sabotaging behaviors,
though there is an incredible body of work on EI from
experts around the world that is continually growing
with time.
WHAT IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand,