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Episode 11: Emotional Maturity Pt. 2

Taylor Cox

Hello Tenacious Humans!

In today’s episode, we are talking all about the HOW when it comes to emotional maturity.

I’ll coach you on HOW to deal with difficult humans with low amounts of emotional maturity.

I’m coaching you on HOW to increase your own emotional maturity.

You’re not going to want to miss the second part to last weeks episode. This episode is packed with coping skills and strategies to help you be your best self.

The homework this week is a questionnaire I got from the work of Dr. Lindsey C. Gibson. Her work on emotional maturity is incredible. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can become more emotionally mature, go read her books. They’re amazing. The questionnaire she built is specifically made for adult children who grew up with very emotionally immature parents. I tweaked it a bit so that the questions are more geared towards self reflection versus reflecting on how you were parented. Get your your journal or notebook and take an honest look at where you are at with your own emotional maturity. Even if the answer is, “I’m emotionally immature”, now you know and can take steps to increase your maturity today. If you do end up scoring in the emotionally immature category, you can always come see me. We will work on strategies and skills that will help you increase your emotional maturity that will better yourself and your relationships.

Here is the questionnaire. Under the questionnaire is all the social media links, how you can support the pod, and how you can share your Tenacious Heart Moment if you’d like it to be read by me on next weeks episode. Take care Tenacious Humans!

-Taylor

Emotional Maturity Questions

1. Do I tend to overreact to relatively minor things?

2. Do I tend to react to difficult circumstances or do I tend to respond to difficult circumstances?

3. Am I able to label and understand exactly what I’m feeling when I’m emotionally flooded?

4. Are you comfortable when others confide their emotional feelings to you or do you tend to feel uncomfortable?

5. Are you often irritated by individual differences or different points of view?

6. Are you a reliable confidant? When asked to keep someone's confidence, do you honestly keep it to yourself?

7. Do you often say or do things before thinking about how it could impact someone else?

8. Is it difficult for you to understand others' feelings? Is it difficult to understand behavior that you don’t agree with?

9. Are your regular conversations with friends and family centered on your life and interests?

10. Do you feel like you need to defend yourself and opinion during disagreements?

11. When a decision needs to be made, is your decision often chosen?

12. Do you often accept and use new ideas from others when trying to get the best results?

13. Are you likely to engage and seek out gossip surrounding family members, friends, or neighbors?

Answer Key:

  • Questions 1, 5-11, & 13. Yes = Emotional Immaturity | No = Emotional Maturity

  • Question 2: React = Emotional Immaturity | Respond = Emotional Maturity

  • Question 3. No = Emotional Immaturity | Yes = Emotional Maturity

  • Question 4. Comfortable = Emotional Maturity | Uncomfortable = Emotional Immaturity

  • Question 12. No = Emotional Immaturity | Yes = Emotional Maturity

 If you’d like to share your own Tenacious Heart Moment, follow the instructions below.

Tenacious Heart Moment Instructions:

  1. Address your emails to: tenaciousheartlifecoaching@gmail.com 

  2. In the subject line, please type: Tenacious Heart Moment

  3. If you’d like to remain anonymous, please write your moment as such. I will be reading each moment how they are exactly written.

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