Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life

Decode your nine most basic emotional needs and coach yourself to calm, health, and happiness.

Are you feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, and unable to tame your frenzy? Are you unhappy in your job or your personal relationships? Do you set goals but often fail to achieve them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are you’re overlooking some distinct parts of your personality that are key to reaching a happy, healthy state.

In Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life, executive coach Margaret Moore and Harvard Medical School faculty member Edward Phillips, MD, identify the nine distinct parts of your personality (your Inner Family) that express your primary drives, values, capabilities, and needs. Based on the latest research as well as on their own work with clients and patients, this book shows you how to:

• Decode the language of your emotions and bring your Inner Family into harmony

• Discover previously unknown strengths

• Achieve self-mastery

This insightful, approachable book will help you accomplish a wide range of goals—from weight loss and career management to better parenting and more fulfilling personal relationships—by teaching you how to identify and assess your emotions and revise your behavior accordingly. You will learn how to tune in to the messages of your emotions, gain deeper insight into your individual needs, and create a rich and meaningful life.