Our human (egoic) tendency is to want to feel good (and to avoid feeling bad) about ourselves. But without a way of recognizing, accepting, and addressing all of who we are, including the Shadow side and difficult parts of our experience, our personal growth stops and we remain asleep to our potential.

opening up that space between how you feel and what you do about those feelings, emotional agility has been shown to help people with any number of troubles:

RULER curriculum, in when he teaches people a set of emotional skills: how to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate their emotions.

become more aware of your emotions, to learn to accept them, and then to flourish by increasing your emotional agility.