Acknowledging Feelings and Emotional Agility

Children experience grief but lack the coping skills to guide them through these difficult moments. Susan David Ph.D. the visionary behind Emotional Agility. says "When we show up fully, with awareness and acceptance, even the worst demons back down. Simply by facing up to the scary things and giving them a name, we oftewn strip them of their power." This is the core of what my Emotatude series is about.  My Emotatude series strives to give our feelings names and even paint pictures of what they look like.  I have done this to help my family and ultimately myself cope.  We really can't control how many emotional experiences we will have.  We can control how we will deal with them.  Do we hold things in?  Do we go over them in our mind over and over again? Or, do we accept situations and embrace them with all our being.  That is what Susan David calls "showing up." This is what I am working on personally, and what my books are trying to work on too. Right now I am working on my sixth book Gregory Deals with Grief. I hope that it will be as enlightening as Crandle's Conniptions, The Secret of Warm Fuzzies, How to be Heebie Jeebie Free, and What to do When you Get the Bejeebers Scared Out of You. I revere Susan for her deep research in these matters that I am savoring chapter by chapter.  They feed my spirit and give me new direction in my writing.