In this episode, Mollie Jean De Dieu, the founder of Emotional Inclusion, offers us a glimpse into her latest book, "Emotional Inclusion: A Humanizing Revolution at Work". She recounts real-life workplace stories that illustrate the challenges people face and how fostering emotional inclusion can lead to improvements in the workplace for everyone.
Insights from this episode:
- Stigma in the workplace
- Effects of workplace experience on performance
- Fears and struggles from expectations
- Anxiety in work influencing personal life
- Pressure from societal norms
- Importance of seeking help
- Power of authenticity and vulnerability
Quotes from the show:
- “Emotional inclusion invites others to look into our humanness. Being emotionally inclusive means being emotionally and mutually accepting of one another.”
- “The mind-body connection is undeniable when it comes to discussing mental health or emotional wellness holistically.”
- “There is an urgency to look at stigma as a gateway to creating emotionally inclusive workplace cultures.”
- “Emotional inclusion invites us to change the core of our discriminating attitude and false assumptions when labeling each other's humanity.”
- “There is no question that emotionally inclusive companies communicate tools and strategies to address and spot anxiety, depression, stress, and mental illness overall.”
- “The stigma of mental illness is one of the top reasons that people do not receive care.”
- “Emotional inclusion puts emotional intelligence into action in a medicalized, confidential, and purpose driven way.”
- “Whichever way we choose to tackle emotional inclusion, the pull is just greater than us at this stage.”
- “Emotional inclusion calls for the dialogue to be deepened, and the stigma to be weakened.”
Stay connected:
Emotional inclusion
https://www.emotionalinclusion.com/
https://www.instagram.com/emotional_inclusion/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/emotional-inclusion/
Get your copy of the book:
https://amzn.to/402BNgj
"Emotional Inclusion: A Humanizing Revolution at Work" is published by Penguin Random House
