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How to Build Emotional Strength

You train your body to lift more, run longer, recover faster. But when it comes to rejection or hard feedback, most of us collapse like a flan in a cupboard. Dr. Emily Anhalt says that’s not a flaw—it’s just undertraining. Emotions aren’t soft. They’re adaptive signals you can train to work *for* you, not against you.

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Emotional Fitness Psychologist

Dr. Emily Anhalt is a clinical psychologist and co-founder of Coa, a mental fitness platform reframing emotional health as something you train, not fix. She’s worked with TED, Google, and the NBA, and developed the “7 traits of emotional fitness” used by thousands to build real mental resilience.

Based on Emily Anhalt | Emotional Fitness & How to Build Resilience | The Psychology of Your 20s, summarised and reframed by Insights.

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