While many books talk about understanding and controlling one's emotions very few are honest about how difficult it is to accomplish. Lou acknowledges the struggle we all have with our emotions and offers knowledge and insights gained through science research and his own personal experiences. In order for us to control our emotions we must understand our emotions, where they come from and how deeply they affect our life. Our Emotional Life pries opens the truth about our emotions with a direct no nonsense approach delving deep into what makes our emotions tick at the conscious and unconscious levels. Our brains architecture builds itself in early childhood and youth creating neural connections to key areas of the brain responsible for determining our ability to learn, deal with stress, develop meaningful relationships have confidence, set and reach goals, and how stress and negative early childhood experiences block these key neural connections leading to problems learning, coping and developing confidence. We will discuss our emotions and personalities, the benefits and deficits of anger fear and happiness, how to recognize emotions gone astray, irrational thinking and counter-productive behaviors that interfere with our ability to live productive lives with balanced emotions. Our Emotional Life will help us: Decrease our fixation on past experiences. Improve how we react to our thoughts and feelings. Decrease over worry and rumination. Decrease avoidance. Learn how our brain builds itself in early childhood and develops our emotions and personality. Understand the different ways to describe our personality and emotions. Increase awareness of your emotions, where they come from, and how they affect your life. Learn to understand how your personality, communication style, personal bias, and beliefs affect your choices. Learn how stress changes your brain causing irrational thinking, decreases emotional and impulse control leading to worry anxiety and depression. Learn to understand your emotional life and reduce stress, anxiety and depression, and increase confidence and emotional control. Decrease stress anxiety and depression Overcome emotional barriers and personal restrictions. Learn to alter perceptions, uncover negative beliefs and improve control over your emotions, reducing stress anxiety and depression and living a richer more fulfilling life unbound from the false beliefs, insecurities, and lack of confidence that holds us back from being authentic. Improving our emotions is no easy task and Our Emotional Life will not entertain you or take you down the rabbit hole. Nothing of value comes quickly. We cannot be the best of ourselves without facing the worst of ourselves. Join Lou on the path to emotional freedom. Control Your Emotions, Advance Your Thinking, Balance Your Behavior