Do you know the feeling? A team meeting, a couple of sharp emails, deadlines piling up.
And in the middle of it all, there’s a sentence hanging in the air—unspoken, but present:
“Just hold it together. Emotions don’t belong at work.”

But you’re not a robot. You’re human.
Whether you like it or not, you have emotions.

You can’t switch them off. They don’t just disappear. They get pushed below the surface—and when they go unspoken and unseen, they show up in other ways: irritability, exhaustion, outbursts, silence, anxiety…

💡Emotions aren’t the problem.
The problem is that we don’t know how to work with them.
At work. At home. In our own minds.

In emotional intelligence trainings, I see how much this topic resonates.
And how lost we often feel in it. The world of emotions feels unclear and confusing—like a fog beneath the surface. We lack the words for them, we don’t know how to tell them apart, and there are some we’d rather not feel at all… we simply don’t know what to do with them.

And yet emotions have a powerful impact on the quality of our relationships, team performance, creativity, innovation, engagement… even our health.

🧠 Emotional intelligence isn’t a gift you’re born with—or without.
It’s a set of skills, and we can learn it.

In the next parts of this mini-series, you’ll find simple inspiration to help you turn emotions into allies. If the topic speaks to you, join me again on Thursday—perhaps with your morning coffee. 😉

Take care. Wishing you all the best—not just with your emotions!

I am Katka
Your soft-skills & coaching partner