26. #EmbracingLife: Navigating Death and Emotional Intelligence with Amy Jacobson
If you’re curious about emotional intelligence and want to know how to apply it to your life, then this episode is for you!
This week we chat to emotional intelligence expert Amy Jacobson about her early experience with death and how it ended up shaping her life and career before she even worked out the connection.
Amy brings a fascinating insight into life, death and how being scared of death is now a thing of the past for her after some deep work to understand the impact of an event she witnessed in her teenage years.
I’d love to know how Amy’s story related to your own early experiences with death. Continue the conversation over on Instagram at @hashtag_death
In this episode we cover:
- What emotional intelligence is
- Being able to control our emotions
- It’s not what you know, it’s how and why you do it
- Owning what makes you tick
- Facing your emotions
- Feeling and understanding what other people feel
- Asking the right questions
- Being motivated and achieving goals in life
- Choosing to leverage our emotional intelligence
- Fearing death
- Recalling a buried memory around death
- Boxing up death and ignoring it
- Defining success and changing goalposts
- Working out the link between success and death
- Death as a natural part of life
- Overcoming fears and a new sense of self
- Focusing on the positive achievements, rather than what’s left to do
- Being comfortable in your own body
- Understanding neural pathways created in early years
- Working through trauma in a safe space
- The importance of a support network.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
- #Hashtag Death Instagram: @hashtag_death
- Ways to work with Ingrid: forevernow.com.au
- Ingrid Reiger’s Facebook: @forevernowcelebrant
- Ingrid Reiger’s Instagram: @ingrid_forevernowcelebrant
- Ted Lasso: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/
- One Day book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280118-one-day
- One Day TV show on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81256740
- Amy’s interview with Dr Katherine: https://drkatherine.com/how-to-build-emotional-intelligence/
- Amy Jacobson website: amyjacobson.com.au
- Amy Jacobson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-jacobson-emotional-intelligence/
More about #Hashtag Death
There are two certainties in life, death and taxes. Death may not come on the 30th of June, but it is something from which none of us is immune. So why not talk about it? Here at #Hashtag Death, we’re dying to talk!!
At birth, there are books, courses, midwives, celebrations. Most popular lists and blogs.
At the end of a life, it goes quiet. Where do you turn?
Meet the experts. #Hashtag Death – because conversations about death and dying SHOULD be trending!!
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