The one about Emotional Literacy

We’ve heard a lot about emotional intelligence, and in this episode we’re focusing on a close relative, Emotional literacy.

What do we mean by emotional literacy? the ability to recognize and understand your own emotions, how they play out in you, and then being able to read emotions in others and figure out how they are feeling and empathize with them.

Piece of cake, or what?

Well... not really. Still, like literacy it is a skillset that opens so many doors. And it can be learnt and improved. 💪

So, join us in this episode as we:

• discuss what emotional literacy is
• ways to get more literate
• understand why it’s relevant to talk about this

Finding words to describe them is just one step of this. Yet, a very important one. We’ve got your back, and wrote this post with tools from the Center for Non Violent Communication that can help put together those building blocks to a healthier connection with your own feelings and other people’s.

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🔍Access the transcript.

Remember: everybody hurts, sometime. We all go through our own battles. And this is not always about what happened, but how we experienced it.

Talking about your feelings, where those feelings come from can help us reframe the stories we are telling ourselves about our realities. For that you need time, space and not judging.

Still, remember what Andrew Huberrman says, it’s futile to try and rescue thinking with thinking. At a point, emotions are rooted in our biology. They are part of life. So, let’s figure out together how we can surf through them in a kinder and more empathetic way.

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🙋‍♀️ Find out more about show’s co-hosts Vera & Mercedes here and connect with them in LinkedIn.

Thanks Abstracta and Inc English Services for your support and UyCast for producing us 👏. Bye!