Emotionally Fit or High EQ?
What Does It Mean to Be Emotionally Fit? Emotional fitness is best understood as a kind of internal conditioning — the emotional equivalent of being able to lift, carry, and recover under physical load. It isn’t about being calm or cheerful by temperament; it’s about having the capacity to stay grounded when pressure rises, to regain your footing after emotional strain, and to maintain a sense of agency even when circumstances feel overwhelming. Someone who is emotionally fit can tolerate discomfort without shutting down or lashing out, adapt when life shifts unexpectedly, and hold boundaries without slipping into rigidity or aggression. Emotional fitness shows up in the way a person moves through conflict, uncertainty, caregiving, grief, or fear. It’s not theoretical or abstract; it’s lived in the body, in the nervous system, in the way you recover after being knocked off balance. Emotional fitness is less about who you are and more about what you can carry. Emotional Intellige...