Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
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Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
Cats, Dogs and Humans Part 3: How Adolescence Transforms Feeling into Identity
Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright
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Cats, Dogs and Humans Part 3: How Adolescence Transforms Feeling into Identity
Send us a text Have you ever wondered how we transform from reactive infants into reflective adults capable of emotional sophistication? This fascinating journey through human emotional development reveals the remarkable neurobiological revolution that reshapes our inner landscape. Starting as creatures of pure reflex, our earliest emotional systems function like uncalibrated fire alarms—all intensity with little modulation. The infant experiences the world through immediate, unfiltered reac...
Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright
Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
