Flex Your Feelings: Train Your Brain to Develop the 7 Traits of Emotional Fitness

This is Atomic Habits for your mental health—a data-driven, practical, step-by-step plan for developing the 7 essential traits of emotional strength necessary to face all of life’s challenges and become the best leader, entrepreneur, and human you can be.

Can you train your brain for greater emotional health,
just like you train your body for better physical fitness?

We know how to push our bodies for peak physical fitness—but when it comes to our emotional health, many of us just wing it. What if you could coach your mind for greater satisfaction and success, just like you train your body to get stronger? That’s the promise of Flex Your Feelings, a data-driven, step-by-step plan for developing the 7 essential traits of emotional fitness necessary to become the best leader, entrepreneur, and human you can be.

Here’s the good news: emotional fitness can be LEARNED…even if you didn’t grow up with mentally strong role models, and even if you’re not sure how to do it. Dr. Emily Anhalt—psychologist to the Silicon Valley tech elite and founder of Coa, the “gym” for mental fitness—offers a prescriptive, 7-step plan to help you develop the emotional strength and flexibility to cope with whatever comes your way. As you progress in your career and through your life, she explains, emotional intelligence isn’t just a “nice to have” soft skill. It’s a vital talent that allows you to show up as your best self, in good times and during tough moments. In Flex Your Feelings, you’ll find a blueprint for building an emotional fitness practice that works for you—so you can live it, every day.

“This book is a necessary and essential addition to the world of mental health.” —Kevin Love, NBA All Star

Dr. Emily Anhalt is a clinical psychologist and co-founder of the mental health startup Coa—the "gym" for mental health. She’s consulted for American Express, the NBA, Google, Spotify, and Salesforce, among other companies. She currently splits her time between San Francisco, CA and New York City.