Barry Neil Kaufman is an emotional intelligence best-selling author who, in my opinion, fantastically answers this in his book Power Dialogues: The Ultimate System for Personal Change. I’ve provided the book excerpts below.
Barry Kaufman studied under a psychotherapist named Bruce Di Marsico who put forward the idea that there are certain things we think should make us emotional. I describe the impact of this revelation in my social anxiety journey in my story. For more on the insight Bruce articulated I suggest you read this.
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