Dr. Robin Stern of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence: How To Live With Joy Even When It Feels Like The Whole World Is Pulling You Down

When we live ‘on purpose’ we live our values, and we live intentionally. Living on purpose, means knowing what is guiding us, what we are ‘meant’ to do … it means we have a choice not only every day, but, in every interaction about how we will ‘show up’ in that interaction — we will be empathic, compassionate, a good listener? We will be someone who lifts that spirits of the person you interact with. I think about that every day — I begin the day with a moment of gratitude — and, think about what is ahead of me for the day — and how I can be my ‘best self’ in every interaction…

Robin Stern, Ph.D., is the co-founder and associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an associate research scientist at the Child Study Center at Yale. She is a licensed psychoanalyst with 30 years of experience treating…