Reclaiming Our Freedom, Energy, and Power | Dr. Emma Seppälä

The Courageous Life

There is an internal freedom and a relationship with yourself so profoundly life-supportive and energizing that you access your fullest potential.
This is sovereignty. Our innate human capacity for being resilient regardless of the chaos that life brings and for staying true to oneself and intentional regardless of outside influences.

In her beautiful, and empowering new book: Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos.
Dr. Emma Seppälä reminds us:
Sovereignty is our birthright and it's what we can all have if we know how.
Today we'll unpack how, as we take a deep dive into human potential and our capacity for Sovereignty.
In today's conversation Emma will share:

• Moving stories about people she’s come across who have found sovereignty in the face of immense challenges and adversities and what she’s learned from them about resilience, inner freedom, and personal power.
• Her own story about a brush with death and finding sovereignty as a result
• What keeps us from experiencing sovereignty - what Emma calls the bound state and different forms this can take
• Why finding sovereignty is really an act of reclaiming our innate strength and wisdom that is there from childhood
• Foundational qualities for sovereignty including having a caring relationship with oneself, cultivating awareness, and choosing courage.
• Practices that can support sovereignty including meditation, breathing, and reflecting on our relationship triggers,
• How leaders can foster cultures that support sovereignty at work and how doing so can drive innovation and creativity.
• What she's learned about the importance of intuition, listening to your gut, and having the courage to follow your heart.

If you want to dig in to this topic - I would highly encourage you to pre-order a copy of Sovereign or pick it up when it comes out on April 23rd, 2024. You can find everything about the book, and some wonderful resources Emma has generously put together at iamsov.com
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More about Emma:

Emma Seppälä, Ph.D., is a best-selling author, Yale lecturer, and international keynote speaker, Seppälä teaches executives at the Yale School of Management and is faculty director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program. A psychologist and research scientist by training, her expertise is the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, and social connection. Her best-selling book The Happiness Track has been translated into dozens of languages. Seppälä is also the Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. For more please visit: emmaseppala.com

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