The Emotional Edge: Discover Your Inner Age, Ignite Your Hidden Strengths, and Reroute Misdirected Fear to Live Your Fullest
Crystal Andrus Morissette
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN: 2:00333164
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Ever Feel Like Your Inner Age Doesn't Match Your Outer One?
The Emotional Edge empowers you to stop reacting in knee-jerk ways that hurt and instead start expanding your life to become the greatest expression of you possible. Once you know your Emotional Age, you can take any needed steps to become an authentic adult so you stop giving your power away. You'll learn:
You'll learn:
--Whether you're a Parent, Child, or Adult ‘archetype'-take the Emotional Age Quiz and find out
--When you're inadvertently sabotaging yourself and why
--How to channel fear and anger into courage and willingness
--How to change your communication scale and style from passive or aggressive to assertive, accepting, and ultimately peaceful
--Methods for fine-tuning into your unique needs mentally, emotionally, and physically
--Ways to live your best life without guilt, shame, or blame
--And lastly, how to rewrite and re-route your relationship, work, and bliss paths
Never feel like a victim of circumstance, genetics, or your past again. Instead of letting your emotions get the best of you, now it's time to get the best of them!From the Hardcover edition.
friendships are easier. c. Love my same-sex friends! I can’t imagine my life without them. At least once a month, we get together whether to take a walk, to play sports, or to go for lunch, dinner, or a drink. Total up all your (a) answers - ___________ Total up all your (b) answers - ___________ Total up all your (c) answers - ___________ You may notice you have answers in all three categories (a, b, and c); each represents one of the Dominant Emotional Archetypes or an Emotional Age.
within the world. They see the bigger picture and are aware of global struggles, concerns, and challenges. They feel as though they are following their purpose and passion, contributing to the collective consciousness in a powerful way. The Adult Archetype is within all of us; now we just have to bring it forth. In the next few chapters, you will learn how to expand from the Parent or the Child Sub-Archetypes into the Adult Archetype by raising your level of consciousness and improving your
see how wounded he was, too. I was able to see how many of my behaviors triggered him. I realized that deep down, he was angry because he loved me and worried about me but didn’t know how to communicate his fear properly. I felt attacked when really all he wanted to do was protect me. So I set an intention to show up differently and to not fall back into old patterns. I maintained my dignity, self-advocacy, and assertiveness when I spoke to him. I held space for the relationship to blossom. We
the Charmer with men but the Martyr with your children. What matters now is that you realize none of these Emotional Sub-Archetypes define who you truly are. They are simply roles you’ve learned to play. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get to know the Real You—the person you were born to be? And to be the Real You everywhere you go, with everyone you’re with? Do you know how unique and important you are? Do you even know who you really are? Or have you forgotten where you buried your gold—your Real
What characteristics immediately come to mind? What qualities make this archetype so enticing and empowering to you? Notice how these god-/goddesslike personas represent passion, excitement, pleasure, adventure, fertility, sensuality, sexuality, beauty, virility, and strength! What parts of them do you most identify with? Again, remember the words so you can write them down, as well. Say them to yourself one more time. Anchor them into your body. Feel them. Think of the other equally important