How to Get from Pain to Growth

Highlights of the show include:

● Passion for Change: Family full of emotional turmoil sabotaged their true potential

● Struggling with Emotions: Separating emotional reaction patterns from specific person

● Success without happiness is not how most people define success

● Emotional Environment: Creates anxiety, depression, shame, and coping mechanisms

● All scars/wounds are not visible; stop being frustrated, and start studying behavior

● Awareness doesn’t always make an impact, practical mechanics are necessary

● Shift from being reactive to intentional:

○ Connect with yourself during the day, not only during times of stress

○ Give yourself intention and purpose of outcomes, not the issues

● Emotional Re-engineering: Change how you emotionally respond to everything to change your emotional state

● Live Your Potential: Change/condition emotional reaction patterns, thought processes

Links and Resources:

Dr. Tracy Thomas

The Method by Dr. Tracy Thomas

Dr. Tracy Thomas' TED Talk

Dr. Michelle Rozen

Quotes by Dr. Tracy Thomas:

“Our family isn’t able to be the most fun we could be because people are struggling with their emotions.”

“I knew that it was my destiny to focus on, how do we change our emotional selves, so that everybody can be the people they were meant to be?”

“They were becoming successful, but they were not emotionally successful. So, there was a success without happiness, which is not my definition of success.”

“Changing the way that they respond emotionally to everything, truly changes your emotional state.”