EP. 1843

10/29/25

Dr. Marc Brackett

“It’s hard to live a full life when you can’t be your true self.”

The Science of Emotional Intelligence: How to Heal Trauma and Master Your Emotions

Dr. Marc Brackett has spent decades at Yale studying the one skill that determines the quality of your entire life: emotional intelligence. He reveals why even experts struggle to regulate their emotions, especially during crisis. Lewis opens up about his own journey from explosive reactions and ruined relationships to finding emotional mastery at 30, and Marc shares the RULER method that’s transforming how millions of people understand their inner world. This isn’t theory, it’s survival tools for modern life. You’ll learn why permission to feel is revolutionary, how to break cycles of emotional trauma, and why your emotions aren’t the enemy. They’re the roadmap.

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And now let’s jump into episode 1843 of The School of Greatness!

Some Questions I Ask:

  • Why do so many people struggle with understanding how to navigate their emotions to create peace, harmony, and accomplish their goals in life?
  • How did you learn how to process it as the expert now that you were faced with this real world experience? How did you learn how to deal with it and not blow up your life?
  • How dangerous is it then to suppress and numb your true emotions?
  • How does someone co-regulate with someone else’s heightened emotions or irrational emotions that might seem irrational in a context of setting when you can’t even get your own nervous system to relax and you think the other person you’re with is already irrational?
  • If emotions are just information, why do they feel so overwhelming in the moment?
  • What does self-awareness look like for anyone in any generation? What does that even mean? Being self-aware?
  • If someone in your life is bringing what looks like frustration and anger emotion, what is something that you can do to understand what is beneath that anger? To know exactly what it is?
  • If we grew up with a narcissistic parent, how do they learn to break the cycle when they’ve been gaslit most of their life as a child and regulate and co-regulate with another?

In this episode, you will learn:

  • Discover why 90% of people never received emotional education and how this one gap sabotages relationships, careers, and health
  • Learn the RULER method, a five-step framework to recognize, understand, label, express, and regulate emotions in real time
  • Break free from childhood patterns of gaslighting and narcissistic parenting by becoming an emotion scientist of your own life
  • Transform how you show up in relationships through co-regulation, the skill of managing emotions together instead of alone
  • Understand why giving yourself permission to feel all emotions, even the uncomfortable ones, is the first step to genuine freedom
  • Plus much more…
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