ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the factors involved in both the emotional problem and its healthy alternative. It provides readers with a tabular summary of the differences between unhealthy negative emotions and healthy negative emotions. The chapter also discusses eight pairs of emotions and shows how they relate to different adversity themes. They are anxiety and concern, depression and sadness, guilt and remorse, shame and disappointment, hurt and sorrow, problematic anger and constructive anger, problematic jealousy and constructive jealousy, and problematic envy and constructive envy. When coachee experiences unconstructive behavioral and thinking consequences, these combined with the associated unhealthy emotional consequences will lead the person to become stuck. From a Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapy theoretical perspective, it is important to bear in mind that threat-based adversity does not, on its own, bring about coachee’s anxiety. Rather, it is the rigid and extreme attitudes that she holds towards this adversity that are at the core of her anxiety response.
