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Jennifer A. Williams / Emotional Intelligence Coach

Jennifer A. Williams / Emotional Intelligence Coach

Jennifer is the Heartmanity founder and an emotional intelligence expert. She has two decades of EQ experience and is the author of emotional intelligence training and courses. As an emotional fitness coach, Jennifer teaches EQ skills, brain science hacks, and a comprehensive approach that gets results. She is happily married and the mother of three incredible grown children.
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The Art of Empathy: How to Show Empathy Without Saying Sorry

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It is a vital aspect of emotional intelligence (EQ) that helps build relationships, improve communication, and foster understanding. However, being empathetic requires more than just saying sorry, even though that expression is a go-to for many people. Instead, empathy involves active listening, understanding emotions, and responding with care and compassion.

Let’s discuss how to show empathy without saying you're sorry and look at a few practical tips to help you improve your empathy skills.

Estimated reading [...]

Posted in Emotional Intelligence, How to Build Empathy

5 Ways Brain Fitness and Behavioral Health Are Optimized by Healthy Habits

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you struggling with bad habits or a lack of focus? Combatting anxiety or discouragement?

As we navigate our lives filled with technology, relational challenges, social unrest, and growing demands on our time, it’s natural to get off balance sometimes. However, we have the power to change our lives and commit to practices that create healthy habits to keep our brains fit. And brain fitness is crucial for a happy life; it is, after all, the hard drive! With the right strategies, we can become healthier, learn new habits of mind, and become mindful versions of [...]

Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective, Emotional Intelligence & Fitness

Conscious Parenting: How to Honor Your Child's Inner Guide While Disciplining

In today's modern world, children's senses are over-stimulated daily with movies, video games, animated TV shows, and the onslaught of social media, smartphones, and more recently, virtual reality. A global society with a 24-7 internet provides instant answers to our children and teens independent of their parents or family values.

These cultural trends and social conditioning train our children to look outside themselves for answers, validation, excitement, entertainment, and happiness. Do you see the rub?!

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Posted in Perfectly Imperfect Parenting

Home Is Where the Mind Is: How Interior Design Can Improve Your Mental Wellness

We spend a lot of time at home, more so since the pandemic. Our house is not only our shelter, but it also serves as our recreational space and refuge. And nowadays, in this increased remote working era, it’s often our workspace, too!

Since we spend a great deal of time indoors, our environment is vital for our well-being, and its effects are often underestimated. Did you know that the interior design of your home or workplace can significantly impact your mental health?

Estimated reading time: 6.5 minutes

Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective, Habits for Health

How to Get Acquainted with Your Intuition

Can you increase your listening power to the voice of intuition? Does everyone have intuitive abilities? And can you learn to use your intuition more accurately? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Is intuition a part of emotional intelligence? Or is it memory pattern matching by our minds as some psychologists believe? These questions arise whenever a person desires to understand their intuition more or begins to tap its power.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective

Resiliency, Inner Peace, and How to Calm in an Emotional Storm

We are all still adjusting to post-pandemic and building more forward momentum. Regardless of what challenges you face, resiliency is critical. When confronted with tragic world events coupled with personal challenges of our own, life can seem overwhelming. Learning emotional intelligence skills will help, grounding you in inner peace and well-being despite stressful times. When dealing with uncertainty, worry, and anxiety, you will be glad you have a life jacket keeping you afloat in the turbulent waters of emotions.

Estimated reading time: 4.5 minutes

Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective, Emotional Intelligence & Fitness

7 Reasons You Need to Set Healthy Boundaries: Simple but Powerful Advice

When I was a young adult if someone had told me what a HUGE difference healthy boundaries would make in my life and for my happiness, it would have changed everything. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way: overgiving, pleasing others, being overwhelmed, exhausted, and depressed with never enough time for what truly mattered to me.

Estimated reading time: 4.5 minutes

Posted in Emotional Intelligence

How to Stop Procrastinating in 4 Easy Steps

Many associate procrastination with a lack of self-discipline. Procrastinating is a symptom, not a problem.Believe it or not, you have a really good reason for procrastinating, but you’re not listening! Usually, we’re too busy criticizing ourselves! Learn an amazing process to accomplish far more this year!

Estimated reading time: 4.5 minutes ... unless you procrastinate! 😆

Posted in Emotional Intelligence & Fitness

Empathy vs. Compassion—Which One Is Better?

We have all been there—someone we care about is hurting, and we want to support them but don’t know how. Should we empathize or show compassion? What is the difference between empathy and compassion? And which one should we express when?

Let’s take a closer look at the differences between empathy and compassion to understand how to apply them in everyday life. Understanding each one better can help us understand each other more authentically.

Related reading time: 7 minutes

Posted in Emotional Intelligence & Fitness

3 Life-Changing EQ Tools that Will Transform Your Life for the Better!

Did you consciously choose your habits? Do you feel stuck or in a rut with bad habits? A simple way to shift our lives for the better is through emotional intelligence.

Habits are one of the most vital things to be mindful of and intentional with. They have tremendous power—for better or worse! Each tiny (and not-so-small) habit in your life adds up to the quality of your life.And how you think and feel each day is directly responsible for new beginnings and transforming the old into the new.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective, Emotional Intelligence & Fitness

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