Are you coping effectively?

Avoidant coping strategies (think binge-watching TV or procrastination) can seem like a magician's disappearing act for our problems. 🎩✨ But the difficult emotions or tasks we're trying to avoid often have a way of popping up over and over again. 🐇

Multiple studies show that avoidant coping can work for us once or twice, but when we start using avoidant coping as our default strategy, there is an enormous cost to our wellbeing.

By repeatedly defaulting to avoidant coping strategies, we miss out on the opportunity to develop the skills to help us navigate challenging times.

So the next time you're tempted to pull out your trusty old avoidant coping strategy, see if you can move toward problem-focused coping instead.

//Speaking

Susan inspires audiences to think, feel, and act differently with deeply impactful and positive outcomes for themselves, their colleagues, and their organizations. More details here: https://www.susandavid.com/speaking/

//Emotional Agility Learning Journeys

Meet the moment with emotional agility online learning. Our science-based microskills are powerful, practical, and scalable. For individuals, cohorts, and everything in between. More details here: https://www.susandavid.com/courses/

//Connect with Me

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//My Book (get a free chapter with the link below)

Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

EMOTIONAL AGILITY helps us to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. This process isn’t about ignoring difficult emotions and thoughts. It’s about holding those emotions and thoughts loosely, facing them with courage and compassion, and moving beyond them to ignite change in your life.

Written with authority, wit, and empathy, EMOTIONAL AGILITY serves as a roadmap for real behavioral change.

https://www.susandavid.com/book/

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//About Susan

Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her TED Talk on the topic of emotional agility has been seen by more than 10 million people. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal and often appears on national radio and television.

#1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author
Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award Winner
Harvard Business Review Management Idea of the Year
Cofounder of the Institute of Coaching (a Harvard Medical School/McLean affiliate)