Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life: Decode Your Emotional DNA-and Thrive — From Harvard Health: Coach Your Brain and Achieve Balance

A Harvard Health Publications book

From a top wellness coach and a Harvard Medical School professor, comes this revolutionary book that will show you how to identify and decode your nine most basic emotional needs—and coach yourself to a calmer, healthier, and happier life.

The more you thrive, the better your brain functions, and you’re able to perform at the best level. Your health improves. You enjoy life more. When you’re thriving, your stress level is down, your confidence is up, and the internal frenzy is tamed by a poised, self-assured mind.

But if you’re like the majority of Americans, you may be, in psychological terms, languishing rather than flourishing—surviving instead of thriving. For many, feeling overwhelmed and out of balance has become normal, a consequence of overlooking basic emotional needs. The key to reaching a happy, healthy state is by tapping into, not tuning out, your distinct emotions, and listening to the inner monologue inside your mind.

Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life combines the worlds of self-help, psychology, and medical science to guide you to a place of self-management and control. This insightful, approachable book will teach you how to identify, decode, and assess the nine most basic emotions that rule your brain and to  recognize each of these voices and act accordingly to achieve a wide range of goals—from weight loss to career management. Coach your brain to gain deeper insight of your individual needs and live life to your maximum potential.

This evidence-based method will teach you how to master your inner world.

• The Inner Family Framework: Learn to identify the nine core voices in your mind—from the Executive Manager to the Curious Adventurer—to finally understand your inner conflicts.
• A Practical Self-Coaching System: Go beyond theory with exercises and tools designed to help you listen to your emotional needs and coach yourself toward your goals.
• Mindfulness for a Calmer Mind: Master simple techniques to quiet the internal frenzy, reduce stress, and approach your emotions with clarity instead of judgment.
• From Languishing to Flourishing: Apply a Harvard-backed, science-based approach to move from just surviving to truly thriving in your career, health, and relationships.

Margaret Moore, MBA (aka Coach Meg) is the founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a leaders in building international standards for professional coaches in health and wellness. She is codirector of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member of the Harvard University Extension School, teaching the Science of Coaching Psychology. She blogs on coaching and change for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. 

Edward Phillips, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Director of Outpatient Medical Services of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Phillips founded and directs The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, www.instituteoflifestylemedicine.org. He has appeared on national media including Good Morning America, ESPN radio, and in Time Magazine.

JOHN HANC teaches writing and journalism at the New York Institute of Technology. He is a long time contributor to The New York Times and Newsday; a contributing editor to Smithsonian magazine’s online edition, and Runner's World magazine, as well as the author of 14 books, including the award-winning memoir, The Coolest Race on Earth. He lives with his wife and son in Farmingdale, New York.