Yo Fun Homies!

Happy Friday!

I hope you crushed your week, and not just sa work and freelancing, but also with your real life.

Yung family time and personal pursuits mo. 

Yung health mo. 

So eto kami, I shared earlier this week that my son got sick and he had to go to the hospital several times, and he’s feeling better now but my wife naman is feeling under the weather. 

Thankfully I’m not sick, at sana hindi mangyari while they’re convalescing.

We don’t have a yaya kasi so I get to take care of them. 

I say get to because it’s something that not all people get to do. Grateful pa din that we get to cope and do things on our own terms pa din. 

It’s not all bad news by the way, there’s some awesome news din.

My wife, Jeans, who is a watercolor artist and children’s book author - - just had her second book with Adarna published, yehey! 

She’s part of Adarna’s newest book bundle, called the 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲!

And according to Adarna, it’s to help us teach kids (and ourselves din really, para sa mga di pa fully grown up like me lol), because we are all vulnerable to different emotions. 

It can teach them the nature of our feelings so they can learn how to express themselves in any situation.

📚 the 4 different emotions featured are: 𝗛𝗶𝘆𝗮, 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝗽, 𝗣𝗶𝗸𝗼𝗻, and 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗶𝘁

Yung book ng wife ko is the Pikon book.

Wala lang proud lang ako sa kanya hehe, this is her studio office. She works from home din. 

The awesome part is that the WHOLE 4-BOOK BUNDLE is now available for ✨ Preorder from Aug 16–Sep 10 to get the bundle for only 𝗣𝗵𝗽 𝟮𝟳𝟳 from its original price of Php 396! 

This is not an affiliate link, but if people buy, may royalties si Misis eventually. 

They have to hit a certain sales threshold (to cover the initial printing round) daw muna before the royalties kick in hehe. 

👉 https://adarna.com.ph/products/emotions-picture-book-bundle

If you have young kids, it’s really a useful tool in teaching how to recognize emotions and self-regulation to children. 

Dati, we didn’t learn about things like this until much later, and in fact, most of us weren’t able to fully experience the whole breadth of our emotions simply because society had preconditioned us not to feel fully. 

According to my personal development coach, there are 8 core feelings or emotions that humans have.

Anger, Fear, Pain, Shame, Guilt, Joy, Passion, and Love. And these 8 individually branch out as well. 

For example, we perceive and feel anger in different shades. Blind rage, fury, wrath, indignation, resentment, frustration, irritation, annoyance. 

In fact, in our own language, we have more words to express anger in degrees: galit, poot, init ng ulo, inis, pagkasuklam, pagkayamot, pagkairita, pagkapikon, tampo, hinanakit, bugnot, asar, sama ng loob, tampo (and probably others I don’t know)

Anyway, if you’ve been part of my list for some time right now, you’ll see me talk about emotions and inner work a lot. 

What does this have to do with Freelancing? 

A lot actually. 

And it has nothing to do with your skills or intelligence as a freelancer. 

I believe that a lot of our limiting beliefs are linked to the feelings we didn’t get to experience and fully go through as children. Being suppressed literally means being limited.

That’s a lot to unpack I know, but if hindi ka pa naman mag-unsubscribe, we have time to talk about it. Hehe. 

Otherwise, unsub ka na kasi you’ll be bored to bits by this shiz. hehe

Anyway, I’ll write more emails around this, but it’s just so amazing to see books like these going out to the public and being taught to kids right now. 

Ikaw, what stories do you have growing up where you felt hindi ka maka-fully experience ng emotions mo? Write back! I reply to every email (pag nagka-time hehe)

Also, let me know if you end up buying the bundle, okay? 

Here it is again, would appreciate it din if you shared it and tag me sa social if you got it. 

👉 https://adarna.com.ph/products/emotions-picture-book-bundle

Happy weekend! 

Cheers! 

Shoden

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