Emotion of the Month: Duality - Foreboding Joy

Facilitated by Tom Ott.

Duality in expectation and disappointment is the focus of November's Emotion of the Month LumZoom. Join us for a discussion on Foreboding Joy...just in time for the holidays. 

Sometimes when we turn inward and pay attention to our emotions, we find ourselves tuned in to an argument going on in our head.  One part of us is excited and charged up about things that are looking forward to in our future...but another part of us is cautious and hesitant, wary of getting expectations too high out of fear of being disappointed. In her book, Daring Greatly, Brené  Brown refers to this inner conflict as “foreboding joy.”  

Tom Ott is a recently retired pastor and psychologist. He served United Church of Christ congregations in Allentown Pennsylvania, Waban Massachusetts, Manistee Michigan, Webster New York and Battle Creek Michigan. In his therapy practice he has worked in Community Mental Health and in private practice with couples and individual adults to help facilitate their healing from trauma, addiction and grief.