Top TED Talks on Decoding The Wisdom of Difficult Emotions
Our emotions are powerful and important messengers but all too often we numb or deny ‘bad’ emotions like like anger, jealousy and sadness.
What if we were to allow ourselves to fully experience all of our emotions without judgement? What would they teach us?
Emotional Mastery: The Gifted Wisdom of Unpleasant Feelings
What often blocks people from feeling capable in life and from having greater success with finances, health or relationships is how they handle unpleasant feelings. Psychologist Joan Rosenberg unveils the innovative strategy and surprising keys for experiencing the challenging emotions that lie at the heart of confidence, emotional strength, and resilience.
You aren’t at the mercy of your emotions: your brain creates them
Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research — and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.
How to Get Over The End of a Relationship
Have you had an important relationship end and felt a bit stuck on how to move on? Clinical psychologist Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone calls this “emotional baggage” or “unfinished business” and speaks about a 3-step process that could help you wrap things up and “finish the feeling”. Antonio also explores what he calls the ‘vitality curve’ of healthy emotion.
Anger is your Ally: A Mindful Approach to Anger
A Brief History of Melancholy
If you are a living, breathing human being, chances are you have felt sad at least a few times in your life. But what exactly is melancholy, and what (if anything) should we do about it? Courtney Stephens details our still-evolving understanding of sadness — and even makes a case for its usefulness.
The Gift + Power of Emotional Courage
Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility.
About Exhale Festival
Exhale is a new mental wellbeing festival helping people to navigate life’s challenges and changes with newfound strength and wisdom.
Taking place on October 5th and 6th 2024, our programme of 25 virtual events will present a vast range of insights, tools and strategies for you to explore.
You will learn from world leading experts in the fields of mental and emotional wellbeing including therapists, behavioural scientists, best-selling authors, TED speakers, neuroscience experts, podcasters and academic researchers.
We will support you to grow through what you go through…so you can live life to its fullest!