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  What if I told you that the greatest revolution of your life doesn’t begin with a circumstance—but with a feeling? Emotional intelligence isn't about controlling emotions or silencing them. It’s about building a relationship with them: learning their language, tracing their roots, and honoring their message without being hijacked by their immediacy. It’s about becoming your own interpreter—of your body, your memories, and your inner world. 🌿 The Inner Landscape: Making Peace with Your Emotions We often inherit scripts about what emotions are "acceptable." Joy is welcomed, but grief must be tidy. Anger is feared, but calm is worshiped. In mastering your emotions, you don’t suppress—they aren't enemies to be vanquished but messengers to be understood. Self-discovery begins when we ask, with gentle curiosity: Where did this feeling come from? What is it trying to teach me? What patterns keep repeating—and why? Awareness is the first transformation. And with ...

    Inspired by   Learning to Feel, Second Edition: One Man’s Path of Reconnecting to the Heart of Emotions There are moments in life that seem ordinary—sipping morning coffee, folding laundry, sitting in traffic. But beneath the routine hum of our days lies something more profound: the invitation to feel. Not to analyze or explain, but to be present. To feel fully. To notice the sacredness of simply being alive. For many of us, especially those trained to think, evaluate, or fix, emotions can become background noise—managed, categorized, or pushed aside. This was the case for the author of  Learning to Feel , a man who knew emotions from the outside but had grown distant from the living experience of them. His story is not just about reconnecting with his own feelings—it’s about learning to see everyday life through the lens of the heart. This second edition of  Learning to Feel  adds depth and reflection to an already powerful journey. With chapter-end qu...

  Recently,  Learning to Feel  (Girrell), reached #32 on the Amazon bestseller list of biographies of social scientists and psychologists, #162 in psychologist biographies, and #404 in emotional self-help books. Book Description:  Learning to Feel, Second Edition,  teaches readers how to gain choice and authority over their emotional states. Feelings and emotions are reactions to the deeply held beliefs and experiences of our lives. In order to become fully emotionally intelligent - that is, to be able to know what is yours, what comes from the others, and how best to respond to those others - we must connect first to those core experiences and often re-interpret the meaning they have held for us.  Learning to Feel  is such a journey, intended to be a set of trail blazes for anyone who wishes to up their game in the realm of emotional intelligence. (Edition 1 was selected for the Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award and a Literary Titan gold ...