Get a first look at the course structure and video topics that will help you strengthen thought, emotion, behavior, and relationship skills.
It all starts right now! In this video you will learn how to identify your most problematic behavior and decrease it immediately so that you can see results fast.
Start to determine where you want to go and what changes you want to make that work for you personally, to build your mental health.
In order to realize deep and lasting change, we have to stick to a routine. In this video, you will discover how to set up and maintain a routine to do the work in this course, so that you can actually achieve RESULTS.
If you have ever struggled to stick with a new program, this is the video for you! Learn how to continue to do things even when they are hard, so that you can actually get where you want to go in life.
Don’t Fudge It teaches you concrete tools to be able to look at your problems clearly, so that you don’t gloss over important content and you are able to reap the most benefits from your efforts.
Here you will learn how to notice and begin to correct the typical pitfalls that lead to our personal biggest psychological, behavioral and interpersonal problems.
What do you need to do to move closer to life fulfillment? This video will help you answer that question as you set clear, detailed and personalized goals for this course.
Before we get too far along, we want to check for things that can cause emotional distress that are not psychological in nature and can undermine your progress as we go. This video shows you how!
To be able to feel better fast, it helps if we know how to calm ourselves down when we are upset. This video gives detailed step-by-step demonstrations of self-calming strategies in multiple categories so that you can find the one(s) that work best for you!
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by someone else’s emotional reaction and were then unsure about what to do to help? Watch “Calm Others” to understand guiding principles and specific interventions to help those closest to you feel supported and calm when they are most upset.
You have learned new tools and tricks to better manage your mental health, now keep it up! “Make It Stick” will guide you through methods to maintain the changes you have worked so hard to attain.
You did it! You finished the first section of Take Charge of Your Life! What an accomplishment. In this video, you get to practice enjoying your achievements so that life’s joys don’t pass you by unnoticed.
In this video, Emily will orient you to begin to investigate your internal experience with detailed instructions. Here is where you start to understand yourself and what is happening inside your brain.
In this video, you will receive information and instructions to find the patterns present in your thoughts. It will help you start to get to know yourself better, so that you can effectively understand yourself and what you need to find fulfillment.
Are you ready to start influencing your brain to think in healthier ways? Watch this video now for detailed instructions and exercises to start changing how your brain operates.
Many people think that they have emotional issues when the real problem is that they have confusing thoughts! In this video, find ways to identify the sneaky thoughts that might be tricking you into being more upset than you need to be.
Have you even felt stuck in your life? One of the primary ways we end up feeling this way arises from one-sided thinking. In “Pointing Fingers” Emily explains how these blame and shame thoughts work and how to push against them to regain life momentum.
Especially in this world of social media, many of us struggle getting wrapped up comparing ourselves with others. Find out how these comparison thoughts cause problems for our emotional health and find ways to shift them to find relief.
In order to find mental stability, it is important to be able to identify people we can trust and then find ways to balance their perspectives with our own. In “Trust Who?” Emily explains how to do just that, in clear, easy-to-follow steps.
OK, are you ready to put all your work on thoughts together? “Rethink It” walks you through how to identify confusing thoughts, then take the next step to shift them to be encouraging and match the situation. This is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy broken down into an easy-to-follow lesson with Garrett volunteering as our example.
Our fears so often unconsciously direct our emotions and our behavior. In this video, find out how to identify and change your fear thoughts so that they don't undermine your values, intentions or goals!
Have you been hard on yourself after a mistake or been critical of yourself when you said the wrong thing? Talk Nice will help you understand the problems that result from self-criticism and find ways to be more internally supportive of yourself.
You made it to the end of the Thoughts Section of Behind the Scenes! In this video we will note your accomplishment and give you an introduction to the next section, Emotions. No Personalize or Practice Worksheets this week, enjoy the break.
In this lesson, you will start to pay attention to your emotional experience. You will begin to understand where your emotions arise and how you experience them, personally.
Have you ever wondered why you have the emotional reactions you do? Make Sense will teach you how to figure out why your emotions are there, so that you can understand yourself better and begin steps to building internal peace.
Decode the mystery of emotions! In this video, Emily explains how you can understand what your emotions are telling you. With the help of this lesson, you will be able to decode your emotional messages to help you make decisions that lead to your own best life.
Has someone else ever told you what you should do to solve a problem and their idea just wasn't right for you? This lesson tells you how to use your emotional wisdom to find your own individualized solutions to problems that think right and feel right.
Here we put the steps for decoding emotions all together in a logical sequence. Ride the Wave teaches you to Take Notice, Identify, Make Sense, Get the Message and Find Your Answer, to understand your emotional wisdom and use it to solve your problems in the right way for you.
Have you ever struggled to manage the feelings related to connecting with other people? In this lesson, find concrete, actionable ways to manage vulnerability, exposure and weakness to be able to confidently and more comfortably share your feelings with others.
Finding hands-on tools to stay calm and figure out what to do with the most intense emotions can be hard to come by, but that is exactly what you will find in this video. Start watching to build skills to have measured responses no matter what the circumstances might throw your way.
Have you ever over or under-reacted to a situation? Well, you aren't alone! In this video, Emily explains logical methods to shift your emotion intensity to best fit the situation and your goals.
In possibly the most controversial lesson of the course, Emily teaches you to create desired emotional states and suggests that love is the healthy resting internal state for mental health.
You made it through the emotion section of the course and now we are on to managing behavior! First, we will start with our own behavior and then move on to interacting with others. This video introduces the behavior section of the course, On the Stage.
Have you ever wondered why you act in certain ways? Here, Emily will help you break down your behavior to find the specific drivers of your actions, so that you can better understand why you do the things you do.
Specific ideas for how to change or influence your own behavior are explained in this video. Emily will help you take action to react in the ways you want to react.
In this video, you will learn how to identify and shift whole patterns of behavior so that you can get the most leverage on influencing your actions.
Do you want to direct your behavior to be able to create certain results? Then this video is for you! Check out Emily's clear instructions on how to act in intentional ways to reach your goals and orchestrate the life you want.
In this lesson, Emily will teach you about the most effective ways to affect behavior and then help you use these principles on yourself! Here you will develop ways to be able to coax yourself into acting how you want to act more reliably.
Ultimately, we have to make ourselves do things, but repetition can make this process easier with practice. This lesson helps you set a plan to do things over and over such that personal motivation takes less effort in the future.
As we move through life, messing up is unavoidable. In this video, you will learn ways to recover from mistakes so that you can come out on top, even when you drop the ball!
This is the introductory video to the second section of the “On The Stage” section of the course. Here, Emily invites you to start thinking about how to manage relationships with other people and specifically highlights the importance of equality in those interactions.
You will start building your relationship skills with this video, teaching you what listening to others can do for you and then giving you practical tools to pay attention and understand when others are talking.
Have you ever been upset about something another person is doing, but didn't want to say anything because it might hurt their feelings? In this video, Emily tackles this common and relatable hurdle, helping you learn skills to say what is bothering you in a way that is more likely to strengthen your connections.
With anyone, there are limits to what they can do and as a result, other people can't always meet all of our expectations. In this video, you will learn ways to manage when you are let down in a healthy relationship so that you don't build resentment and erode your relationship over time.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where what YOU want or need in a relationship, conflicts with the needs of the OTHER person in the relationship? This problem arises so frequently in nearly every connection. In this video, Emily will walk you through a practical, step-by-step process to solve these disagreements so that your relationship conflicts can be resolved effectively.
To build sustainable relationships, it is important to set a culture where both people are comfortable. In Be Considerate, Emily will teach you how to lead the way in your connections to make the other person comfortable, establishing light-hearted ways to set boundaries and developing an easy-going, considerate atmosphere in your most meaningful relationships.
Sometimes we just have to say no. Here, Emily teaches you how to decide when, how and with what level of intensity to set boundaries based on varying life problems that you might face. If you have a hard time setting effective limits, this is the video for you!
While we are so often instructed to let go of painful events or times when we were harmed, actually moving past injuries can be one of the hardest things we can do as human beings. Like so many other psychological issues, there is a skill set to letting go, which Emily explains clearly in this video with an example that is so relevant in today's society. Press play on this lesson to find your tools to letting go of past pain.
You are almost done! Now, it is time to go back, review your original goal(s) and assess your progress. Emily will teach you how to evaluate your experience, determine which mechanisms help you, personally the most so they can be replicated, and reflect to find what went wrong if you did not realize the results you hoped to achieve. The process of self-evaluation you will learn here can help anywhere you might want to set and reach goals in your life.
This is it. The last video in the course. In this final installment, Emily helps you celebrate your achievement, consider feedback for the EI creators, and plan where you want to go from here. Congratulations on this monumental achievement! We couldn't be happier for you and we hope you learned so many new skills and started to build a more fulfilling life.
