EMOTIONAL WELLNESS with Dr. Mark Lerner
Emotional Wellness with Dr. Mark Lerner is a micro-audio podcast series focused on what you need to know—rather than what’s nice to know—for listeners worldwide.The National Center for Emotional Wellness defines emotional wellness as the awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings—and the ability to effectively manage challenges and change. It also reflects our capacity to sublimate: to harness painful emotional energy from adversity and channel it into action—not merely to survive, but to thrive.The mission of the Center is to advance emotional well-being by integrating technology, evidence-based strategies, and the irreplaceable power of authent...
12 Things You Can Do to Foster Emotional Wellness
An AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Perspective
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10 Ways to Prevent Violent Tragedies in America
It's Time to Foster Emotional Wellness
A coordinated, evidence-based, multimodal approach, incorporating the following ten strategies, would reduce the frequency of violent acts.
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AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ and Chatbots
Beyond "ELIZA"
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Corporate Emotional Wellness
An AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Approach
Successful organizations recognize a critical truth: Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides invaluable technology—while addressing human emotion preserves our shared humanity.
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10 Things You Can Do to Help Others DURING a Challenging Experience
An AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Perspective
We all have moments when we can help others facing a challenging experience. And it's okay to feel uncertain or hesitant about addressing others' complex thoughts and raw feelings.
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SUBLIMATION: Channeling Painful Emotional Energy Into Growth, Meaning, and Purpose
An AI-integrated Emotional Wellness™ Approach to Overcoming Adversity
Sublimation refers to the process of channeling painful emotional energy into productive, constructive, and meaningful pursuits. Instead of allowing life’s inevitable challenges to become destructive forces, individuals can redirect that emotional energy into actions that create value—for themselves and sometimes for others as well.
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How to Cope With Uncertainty in Today's World
Utilizing AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ to Improve Emotional Well-Being
In times of uncertainty, we don’t need to control the world around us. We need to become more aware of the world within us—particularly our thoughts—and stay meaningfully connected with the people around us.
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How to OVERCOME & BECOME
An AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Approach to Overcoming Adversity
When we think about “celebrities”—people whose lives we honor—there’s often a common denominator. In nearly every case, they’ve overcome something.
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What Is Emotional Wellness?
10 Evidence-Based Ways to Improve Emotional Well-Being
As our world focuses on addressing mental illness, the National Center has emotional wellness in its crosshairs. The Center defines emotional wellness as the awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings—and the ability to effectively manage challenges and change. It also reflects our capacity to sublimate: to harness painful emotional energy from adversity and channel it into action—not merely to survive, but to thrive.
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AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Consulting
Leading with Humanity in Our AI-Driven World
Consider when Steve Jobs opened an interoffice envelope and revealed the MacBook Air. That wasn’t just a moment of product innovation. It was emotional precision. It demonstrated that breakthrough technology succeeds when it resonates with irreplaceable human presence and emotion.
In today’s rapidly evolving technological world, integrating artificial intelligence is no longer optional; it's essential. But technology alone doesn't create sustainable organizational success. People do—leaders do.
Even in the most advanced organizations, innovation, performance, culture, and long-term g...
AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™ Presentations
A Dynamic Interactive Program That Addresses the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Human Emotion
We're experiencing information overload—infused with daily doses of streaming conflict and adversity. Additionally, digital communication, such as text messaging, email, mobile apps, games, social media, and video conferencing, is replacing genuine face-to-face interaction.
Correlated with this proliferation of technology is an alarming increase in mental health problems. Anxiety has become the most common mental illness in the United States, and depression is now among the leading causes of illness and disability worldwide.
The National Center is co...
AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness™
The Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Human Emotion
AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness (AIEW) refers to the ethical and responsible interface between the cognitive abilities of artificial intelligence and the depth, uniqueness, and complexity of human emotion. While AI can provide accessible evidence-based strategies, tools, and support to promote emotional well-being, AIEW recognizes a fundamental truth: authentic, face-to-face human presence remains irreplaceable—and essential—for emotional wellness.
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Welcome
Welcome to The National Center for Emotional Wellness.
Today, there's a focus on health and wellness—engaging in regular physical activity, maintaining a nutritious diet, getting adequate sleep, staying hydrated, avoiding smoking, limiting alcohol consumption, receiving vaccinations, and having regular health checkups. However, it's important to recognize that wellness includes both physical and emotional well-being.
Our emotions profoundly impact the quality of our lives. Individuals with higher levels of emotional well-being are generally happier, better equipped to manage stress, and experience better overall health and longevity. Neglecting our emotional well-being can lead to me...