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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to insights at the edge. Today my guest is Dr. Aaron Alivo.

Aaron is an assistant clinical professor of medical psychology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the former director of the Columbia

Integrative Medicine Program. In addition, she currently maintains a private psychotherapy practice

in New York City.

With sounds true, Aaron Alivo has created a new book,

Wise Mind Living.

Master your emotions, transform your life, a book that serves as an owner's manual for working with emotional experience.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Aaron and I spoke about the physiological basis of emotions and their evolutionary value.

We also talked about what she calls the cycle of emotion and how emotions come in waves.

Finally, we talked about working with our emotional reactivity as parents and how to teach emotional literacy

to our children.

Here's my conversation with Dr. Aaron Alivo.

Aaron, I'm curious to know how your wise mind living program grew out of your work as a clinical psychologist, grew out of your actual work with clients.

It did. It, one of the things that I realized as I was practicing year after year was that a lot of people came to me with very general

complaints of I'm really stressed out I just don't feel good in my life and

they didn't really have a language when I sort of really

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