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Name That Emotion: A Mindful Approach to Understanding Your Feelings and Reducing Stress
Are you feeling stressed out? In order to really manage your stress, you have to know what emotion you’re feeling. Name That Emotion brings you a free ebook by psychotherapist and Columbia University professor Dr. Erin Olivo to help you learn how to identify and accurately label your emotions. The good news is that all emotions can basically be divided into eight core categories: fear, anger, sadness, shame, disgust, jealousy, happiness, and love.
Drawing from her recent book Wise Mind Living, Dr. Olivo takes you step by step through the phases of what she calls “the cycle of emotions,” including prompting events, interpretations, actions, and aftereffects. You’ll learn how you can begin to intervene and change the nature of your emotional life to alleviate stress and suffering, how to practice acceptance of what you can’t change, and how to live with the greater sense of peace and control that comes from building moment-to-moment mindful awareness.
Note: Excerpted from Wise Mind Living by Erin Olivo.
25 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 15, 2015
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About the author
Erin Olivo
5 books23 followersErin Olivo, Ph.D., MPH, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than
25 years experience and is the author of Wise Mind Living: Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Life. In addition, she is the Co-Founder of the Center for Wise Mind Living, a group psychotherapy practice in NYC.
In her clinical practice, Dr. Olivo works with adults and teenagers who are experiencing difficulties dealing with stress, depression, anxiety, unhealthy relationships, chronic illness or problems such as self-destructive behavior, addictions, and over-eating.
Her treatment approach is solution focused and integrates cognitive behavior therapy and DBT therapy with mind-body strategies such as mindfulness meditation. She teaches her patients how to regulate their emotions, tolerate and manage stress, and achieve a more balanced approach to life that she calls Wise Mind Living.
25 years experience and is the author of Wise Mind Living: Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Life. In addition, she is the Co-Founder of the Center for Wise Mind Living, a group psychotherapy practice in NYC.
In her clinical practice, Dr. Olivo works with adults and teenagers who are experiencing difficulties dealing with stress, depression, anxiety, unhealthy relationships, chronic illness or problems such as self-destructive behavior, addictions, and over-eating.
Her treatment approach is solution focused and integrates cognitive behavior therapy and DBT therapy with mind-body strategies such as mindfulness meditation. She teaches her patients how to regulate their emotions, tolerate and manage stress, and achieve a more balanced approach to life that she calls Wise Mind Living.
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September 14, 2022
Yeah, it happens that some people do not know what they are feeling and what can even trigger them.
I recommend this for people who struggle to name their emotions or who are always overwhelmed by them.
I recommend this for people who struggle to name their emotions or who are always overwhelmed by them.
December 2, 2019
More like 1.5 stars, really.
A very simple, (and simplistic), free book that is no more than a shameful plug for another of the books by the author. It really is a clever marketing tool: an extra couple of chapters, to be released independently and freely, so that at least a number of people might feel compelled to click-buy the other book.
But sadly, in terms of substance, it is very short, it is rather empty and superficial, and constantly refers to the other book, which in my view is not very useful and constantly “steals” materials from Marsha Linenhan’s excellent “ Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
The main message: that it is often useful to examine our emotions, to understand them, our situations and ourselves better, is just too obvious to be discussed further. The author is a therapist and offers a couple of case studies to illustrate her argument. Total waste of my time.
A very simple, (and simplistic), free book that is no more than a shameful plug for another of the books by the author. It really is a clever marketing tool: an extra couple of chapters, to be released independently and freely, so that at least a number of people might feel compelled to click-buy the other book.
But sadly, in terms of substance, it is very short, it is rather empty and superficial, and constantly refers to the other book, which in my view is not very useful and constantly “steals” materials from Marsha Linenhan’s excellent “ Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
The main message: that it is often useful to examine our emotions, to understand them, our situations and ourselves better, is just too obvious to be discussed further. The author is a therapist and offers a couple of case studies to illustrate her argument. Total waste of my time.
September 27, 2021
Controlling emotions
This is a quick read on psychology. The premise is that if we know the name of the emotion that happened, than we could control it.
This is a quick read on psychology. The premise is that if we know the name of the emotion that happened, than we could control it.
August 24, 2020
Good information, heavy push to buy her other book
Although the author has excellent advice and examples of why and how you should identify emotions, this short book (article is more appropriate a description) felt more like a sales pitch. Every piece of helpful information was followed by "I cover more of this in X chapter of my book." or prefaced by " So-and-so used X technique from Y chapter in my book and used this information to... "
Had it been less heavy -handed I might have been more inclined to get said book, but I wonder what she will push me to buy when reading it so I think I'll pass.
Although the author has excellent advice and examples of why and how you should identify emotions, this short book (article is more appropriate a description) felt more like a sales pitch. Every piece of helpful information was followed by "I cover more of this in X chapter of my book." or prefaced by " So-and-so used X technique from Y chapter in my book and used this information to... "
Had it been less heavy -handed I might have been more inclined to get said book, but I wonder what she will push me to buy when reading it so I think I'll pass.
August 25, 2018
I loved this book. I'm usually not one for self help books but this was definitely necessary. I wish everyone to understand their emotions. That way so many unnecessary thing like misunderstood emotions can be missed. Not sure if that makes sense, lol.
Amazing!
Amazing!
August 18, 2020
The book helps reader on how to label the big families of emotions and to characterize the emotion in order to tackle them better. The clarity of differentiating and making list of characteristics of the emotion made it very easy to handle to the future.
November 25, 2017
Surprisingly short.
It was surprisingly a short and an informative one, and definitely one I'll continuously skim back through from time to time to apply this info to my life.
It was surprisingly a short and an informative one, and definitely one I'll continuously skim back through from time to time to apply this info to my life.
August 12, 2018
One of the many books available today that deal with managing stress. This book has more to do with the analyses than "how to do it?" . Does not provide any additional insights
March 8, 2021
Good little book
Good little book that make you understand your own emotion more. I got it for free, so a plus from that. Worth the time spend reading.
Good little book that make you understand your own emotion more. I got it for free, so a plus from that. Worth the time spend reading.
November 8, 2021
Good help
It is a good starting point to recognising emotions and dealing with them. I really recommend it if you struggle with that.
It is a good starting point to recognising emotions and dealing with them. I really recommend it if you struggle with that.
February 22, 2016
This was a good read for beginners looking into the psychology of emotions.
July 27, 2016
It was ok. Some useful things were in there between her repetitive advertising of her other book Wise Mind. Her term "emotional families" was interesting.
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