The Emotion Connection

In this episode, Sharon Faye lays out the fundamentals for parenting with Emotional Strength. With straightforward, real-life examples, you'll discover how your unconscious expectations and underlying judgments of yourself and your child, can shape your day-to-day lives, and your baby's transition into adulthood. In this episode, you’ll learn about: What’s your role as a parent? Parenting Styles P...

In this episode, Sharon Faye explores the hidden influence of expectations and how they quietly shape our relationships, parenting, careers, and everyday interactions. Most expectations operate beneath our awareness, yet they have the power to create conflict, resentment, and disconnection when they're left unspoken. You'll discover how to recognise your unconscious expectations, use your emotions...

In this episode, Sharon Faye explores the powerful role of underlying assumptions - the unconscious beliefs we develop through family stories, life experiences, and personal history. These hidden assumptions can shape our relationships, careers, confidence, and sense of what we believe is possible. Drawing from her own journey and real-life examples, Sharon explains how to identify the assumptions...

Learning How to Feel | The Emotion Connection with Sharon Faye What does it really mean to feel? In this episode, Sharon Faye explores the difference between feeling, thinking, analyzing, and wallowing. She explains why emotions are valuable sources of information and how learning to feel them can improve resilience, relationships, and overall wellbeing. You'll learn: • The difference between sens...

In this deeply personal episode, Serendipity: Feeling by Accident, Sharon Faye shares the remarkable story behind the development of Emotional Strength®. Reflecting on a childhood marked by adversity, Sharon explores how an accidental discovery - that feeling emotional pain made her feel stronger, not weaker - became the foundation of her life's work. Through powerful personal insights and practic...

Season 2 of The Emotion Connection begins with a powerful invitation to open to different perspectives. Challenge the way you see yourself, others, and the world around you. In this episode, Sharon Faye explores the healing power of feeling and why so many of us spend our lives avoiding emotion without even realising it. From childhood we learned about emotional suppression and numbing behaviours...

Welcome to The Emotion Connection - the podcast exploring emotion from a different perspective. Hosted by Sharon Fay, founder of the Emotion Research Institute and creator of Emotional Strength®, this podcast invites you into meaningful conversations about emotion, human behaviour, leadership, healing, and personal growth. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience working with business leaders,...

We are here to wrap up with the 10th podcast of our first season. Well done us! To my surprise and delight, I loved the experience. I hope you did as well. Recording the podcasts was like running for me. I didn’t know I would like it, but I gave it a go anyway and I loved it. There is something magical about sharing with you (the listeners) out there. I have had plenty of feedback from you all for...

This podcast is all about leadership and how Emotional Strength fits into being a leader. Topics covered: How does connecting to emotion improve leadership. Emotional strength, and implications for leadership. Executive leadership development. Leadership with emotional strength. The terms leaders and managers have been used interchangeably. There is a distinct difference. A leader is said to be vi...

Episode 7 on Vulnerability generated a whole range of questions and discussion. Sharon has since recorded another Q&A episode just to cover this episode! Topics covered: What is emotion as a broader concept than Emotional Strength? Does it exist within us? What is the link between vulnerability, empathy and Emotional Strength? Vulnerability, awareness and  weakness. Vulnerability and capacity...

In the latest episode, Sharon gives an overview of her lived experience with being a new mum, parenting styles over the years including punitive parenting and parenting with Emotional Strength.   If you are a parent listening, the homework for this episode is to notice your own parenting style when you’re engaging with your children. Whether you have a toddler, a teen, or adult – notice your tone,...

Back with more feedback and questions! This time from Episodes 4 through to 7. As you may be aware, we love hearing from you about the podcast. Join in the conversation and send your questions, experiences and any feedback to the team by email:  racheln@emotionresearch.com.au . Unleash your curiosity, become intrigued and listen in! Follow or subscribe now to experience health through feeling.

This new episode covers vulnerability. Sharon talks through the history and what the philosophers, researchers and literature says, what it feels like to experience vulnerability and the benefits of feeling vulnerable. It's a strong, deep feeling, one that involves self development and intimacy with oneself. As always, there is homework if you wish to partake - this week's homework is to pay atten...

This is a super exciting podcast to share with our listeners! Episode 6 details a study conducted by the Institute (formerly the Sharon Faye Foundation) in the education sector titled, “Emotional Strength in Teachers”. The study was focussed on the teachers and found that by building Emotional Strength in Teachers, it increased teacher engagement, improved vigor and dedication and in-turn improved...

How did emotion become separated from the body? Listen in to make sense of this. Hear a brief history of emotion, how the emotion theory lost the body, Sharon's view on the relationship between emotion and the body, and her hypothesis of emotion and physical symptoms. Keep sharing your insights and questions, we love hearing from you! Send any questions, experiences and feedback to the team by ema...

Firstly, what is Emotional Strength and how is it possibly the missing link? This episode will explain what it is, the context and the reasons it is important. Sharon will tell her story and how Emotional Strength developed from experiencing a tough life. The Institute plans to conduct further research in the future around the science of emotion and the philosophy of Emotional Strength. Keep shari...

This Q&A Episode is a much requested Question & Answer session where Sharon Faye answers your questions and shares feedback from Episodes 1 to 3. We are always keen to hear from you and how you are experiencing the content of The Emotion Connection Podcast. Join in the conversation and send your questions, experiences and any feedback to the team by email: racheln@emotionresearch.com.au ....

Listen in to this episode for an inside look into the myth of negative emotion. The myth challenges the idea that negative emotion is bad. Sharon talks about negative emotion, such as anger, anxiety, or sadness, and notes that positive emotions are not generally defined as these are simply referred to as emotion. During the episode, Sharon talks about her belief that all emotions are functional an...

Episode 2 brings our listeners a candid interview between Sharon Faye and Alison, a successful physiotherapy business owner.  Alison talks through her own encounters growing up, the experience of a tragedy in her family, and the events of her adult life that brought Alison to a different way of living day-to-day. She talks through avoiding and suppressing feelings and how she came to her turning p...

Interested in emotion? Find out more about how we became disconnected, what it feels like and how to connect to your feelings. The first step is awareness - learn some practical skills in this first Podcast Episode. This is your chance to engage in a conversation about connecting to emotion and practice the skills required to build your capacity to feel. We'd love to hear your experiences! Join in...

The Emotion Connection Podcast Each episode will give you insight into emotion from a different perspective. Engage in a conversation about connecting to emotion and learn how to build your capacity to feel. Follow or subscribe now to experience health through feeling. www.emotionresearch.com.au