Emma Grede

And it was without a doubt, the section on managing emotions, not just because it's really highly personal, but also because I wanted to share where I got that really wrong in the past.

is full of my mistakes and I put those in there so that you might learn from me.

It was important to me to explore the role that managing emotions has in our overall decision-making, especially in a book that is all about taking control and responsibility for yourself.

Now,

Emotional literacy and emotional intelligence are skills that so many of us women have.

And they are critical skills for reading a room, for tapping into cultural trends, and for understanding the motivations of other people.

But to reap the benefits of your gut-based intuitions and to use your emotions in a healthy way, you are going to need to learn how to modulate and manage your emotions.

Our feelings are an essential source of information.

Any woman knows that intuitively, but you cannot live a healthy or functional life if you're running a decision-making process based on your anger or your fear or your guilt.

It just isn't possible.

How many times have you agreed to do things that you absolutely don't want to do?

Like, I'm telling you, it's countless times.

It's happened to me so many times in my life.

But let me tell you, it's a type of betrayal to yourself and we need to stop doing it.

So before I could get deeper into mindset, assessing the old thoughts that shaped me, there's so many of us show in the world, I needed to clear the emotional decks first.

And so will you.

So in this part of the book, I...

Decided that I would put chapters on guilt and fear and anger and joy and sadness because without a good understanding of how these play a role in your decision-making and how you show up, it's really hard to move forward.

Impossible, I would say.

Okay, the next thing.