by Karen Stone | Oct 23, 2020 | Accountability, Acknowledgement, awareness, change, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, meditation, mindfulness, resilience
How does mindfulness promote emotional intelligence? Most people associate mindfulness with meditation and in many ways it certainly is. However, meditation goes beyond sitting in one place and clearing your head often experiencing soulful music.  As I have...
by Karen Stone | Oct 16, 2020 | Accountability, democracy, Emotional Intelligence, Feelings, Independence, mindfulness, Responsibility
Let’s look at why voting is an emotionally intelligent exercise. Voting is a privilege and more than just an American thing to do. Choice provides us the ability to discern what we like and what we don’t. So often we hear the comment, “But I...
by Karen Stone | Oct 9, 2020 | Bullying, Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Feelings, Kindness, love, Parenting, Positive Feedback, support, Uncategorized
Let’s look at controlling our inner bully. Undoubtedly, we all have the capacity to be a bully and sometimes we bully ourselves. What do you say to the bully inside you that is emotionally intelligent? In previous blogs, I have talked about different aspects...
by Karen Stone | Sep 28, 2020 | Accountability, Bullying, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, Emotionally Safe, Feelings, Parenting, Positive Feedback
What do you say to a bully that sounds emotionally intelligent? What action or behavior do most people take when confronted by a bully? Bullies are interesting people. Life always presents us with a choice of behavior. Are our actions positive or negative? Do we...
by Karen Stone | Sep 18, 2020 | Accountability, Conscious Parenting, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, emotional intelligence activities, emotions, EQ Skills, EQ Success, Feelings, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Bullying is emotionally painful always and it buries deep inside you. Most behaviors learned are from modeling beginning at birth. Young children watch their adults and mimic their words, tones and postures. It was getting better for a while with the schools...
by SoftStone | Sep 16, 2020 | Conscious Parenting, Educators, Emotional Intelligence, EQ Skills, Independence, Parenting, Positive Feedback, resilience, Responsibility, Uncategorized
What are the best ways to help abused children heal, love or more? The question asked by many professionals, teachers, foster parents and all those who feel their pain. Having been bullied for many years, I have pondered this question in regards to myself. ...
