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Strengthen Your Emotional Fitness - Dr. Emily Anhalt
Season 8 Episode 363
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How much time do you spend working out your body versus working out your emotional health? Physical fitness requires daily practice—hitting the gym once won’t deliver the results you want. But when it comes to our emotions, we often think we’ll “deal with that later” or assume we don’t need to actively work on our emotional well-being.
Emily Anhalt, clinical psychologist and author of , knows this approach doesn’t work. She’s developed a framework for “emotional fitness”—an ongoing, proactive practice of strengthening your mental and emotional health through small, consistent habits that build resilience, curiosity, and communication skills before you need them.
In this conversation, Emily shares how emotionally fit people approach life differently, why playfulness is a valuable health practice (with research to back it up), and practical strategies you can implement today. Her insights are particularly valuable and timely for those navigating retirement transitions, when stress doesn’t disappear—it simply changes form.
Emily Anhalt joins us from California.
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We Discuss
- Why emotional fitness requires daily practice, just like physical fitness
- How curiosity transforms defensiveness into opportunities for growth
- Why playfulness can increase creativity, collaboration, and longevity
- The hidden stress of retirement: identity, relationships, and meaning
- Setting boundaries: every “yes” is also a “no” to something else
- The power of “Relationship Retros” for proactive connection
- Using emojis strategically to improve communication and reduce misunderstandings
- Building new friendships through your existing network
- The monthly feedback message that can transform your relationships
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Bio
Dr. Emily Anhalt is the author of . She is a clinical psychologist, author, and cofounder of Coa, the gym for mental health.
For the past fifteen years, Dr. Anhalt has worked clinically with executives, founders, and tech employees, and has conducted extensive research with prominent psychologists and entrepreneurs about how leaders can improve their emotional health.
Dr. Anhalt has collaborated with companies like Google, Salesforce, NBCUniversal, NASDAQ, and the NBA.
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