An endemic among people socialized as women is using guilt and shame as our main criteria for our decisions. In a world where we believe it’s our duty to make other people happy and equate the emotions of guilt and shame with being a bad person, it’s easy to fall into the trap of living by a preset emotional compass that society has handed you.
When we realize we’re having default thought patterns that we want to change, we have the opportunity to choose the stories we tell about those thoughts. It is not an opportunity for you to turn your thoughts into something that controls you, or even something that you have to get perfect so you can finally be happy.
Dr. Luana offers her three-step approach for transforming anxiety into power. She’s bridging the gap between the coaching concepts you often hear and the neuroscience behind it, sharing why conducting a value assessment can be beneficial to you, how a value-driven life leads to more happiness, and how to identify if you’re in psychological avoidance.
Discover how staying in a thought pattern of blaming and judging your parents can circulate in unexpected ways through your mental ecosystem. You’ll hear how to bring awareness to this thought pattern, the unintended consequences of demonizing your parents, and how to begin taking responsibility for the parts of your experience that you can control.
Dr. Emily shares the importance of becoming sexually intelligent, and how her new book guides people in figuring out what they need to have more pleasure, communicate better, and have a more fulfilling life overall. You’ll hear the most common pleasure thieves to look out for, how to engage in the sex conversations you’re avoiding, and her advice for having incredible sex.
I offer my answers to your questions on boundaries, breakups, and relationships. You’ll hear why your boundaries are causing you so much pain, how you might have an agenda for your emotions, and why some of the questions I’ve received around relationships are inherently useless in helping you reach a concrete solution.