by Jerry Medol – Director – Dr. Andrew Hill, lecturer in sports and exercise science in the University of Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences, led a study on why some sports coaches engage in outbursts of anger. The article, “When Managers attack: Coaches who care about pundits’ opinions worse at controlling anger” was published in the […]
What are Your Stress Beliefs?
by Rusty Fleischer, Program Director – As many of you know, I am a great fan of TED Talks and use them frequently as a source in our blog. Today I viewed one of the most eye-opening talks ever presented by Dr. Kelly McGonigal on “How to Make Stress Your Friend”, a new way […]
Health Effects of Unhealthy Anger
by Rusty Fleischer, Program Director – Unhealthy Anger is anger you react to, when you let your anger feeling control your behavior. There are many consequences and negative effects to unhealthy and unaddressed anger. One of those is the danger of a heart attack or stroke. Not only is this a true danger, we have […]
Empowerment – A TED Talk by Janine Shepherd
by Rusty Fleischer – Empowerment is a topic that has been close to my heart, particularly self-empowerment. To me it is about giving power and strength to yourself or to someone or something else. It is overcoming challenges, adversarial conditions and going against all the odds in order to create a better life. Each […]
Elements of Emotional Intelligence
by Jerry Medol, Program Director – In November of 2011, Dr. Marcia Sirota wrote an article in the Huffington Post outlining the 12 elements of Emotional Intelligence. You can read the full article here: http://ow.ly/uUTrc Our Director, Jerry Medol, has comments about this article: There are many ways in which we can improve our ability […]