Your Love of Coffee Helps Your Emotional Healing

You probably don’t realize it, but your love of coffee is helping you build your emotional health and heal from your emotional wounds.

Coffee gives you emotional strength

For some, it is like “liquid courage” — providing you with energy and motivation (your “get up and go”) to face the challenges of your day.

Having this boost in courage will help you build your self esteem — your self confidence, self efficacy, your self image. You’ll feel more empowered to take on challenges.

“When I am ready to go into my weekly team meeting at work, I always make sure I’ve had my morning coffee,” says marketing manager Jane Mattingly, “Then I feel like I’m ready for anything.”

When feeling tired, lethargic, or unmotivated you can enjoy a nice cup of coffee — caffeinated java can be like fuel — to renew your energy and refresh your motivation.

Coffee improves your mood

Just the smell of brewing or prepared coffee can release happy brain hormones — increasing your dopamine and serotonin levels.

For many coffee drinkers, drinking that first or only cup of coffee begins to help with sensory integration and balance. Some people don’t want to be bothered until they “have my coffee.”

Attorney Kim Mavis says she likes to “nurse my grande coffee with small sips all morning. It helps me stay calm and focused.”

Research indicates drinking coffee also provides healthy antioxidants that have the power to help you avoid depression — although be careful — drinking too much coffee may make you anxious.

As a seasoned coffee connoisseur, hopefully you know how much coffee intake is the right amount for you to maintain a positive mood.

Coffee makes you more Emotionally Intelligent

Drinking coffee makes you emotionally smarter. Consuming moderate amounts of caffeine will help increase your self awareness, self regulation, motivation and relationship management — those areas that make up your Emotional Intelligence.

Your self awareness increases as your focus and self introspection increases. Coffee can hep you understand yourself better. Just taking the time to enjoy your coffee may help with your self reflection.

Your self regulation increases as your daily coffee consumption can help with your sensory integration and consistency. Being able to depend on your coffee drinking routine will help you stay calmer and more focused.

As mentioned before, if you need a “kick in the pants” to get you motivated and moving toward your goal or desired outcome — nothing works quite like drinking coffee.

And managing and actually enjoying relationships is made smoother with your coffee experience. Many close relationships are enjoyed over coffee. Sometimes, it can even be the great equalizer.

“When I need to go to my boss with something challenging to discuss,” says office worker Jerome Reilly, “I usually ask her if she wants to share a cup of coffee, which usually helps us both.”

Coffee Mindfulness

Your java experience is a party for your senses! Mindful coffee drinking can help reduce your stress and anxiety and improve your mood.

Slow your whole coffee experience down and enjoy each and every part of it.

First, notice the sounds of your coffee brewing — the sounds of your coffee maker or your coffee being prepared at your favorite coffee shop.

Now, take-in a big whiff of the delicious smell of that addicting aroma.

Next, study the color and texture of your coffee, watching how it changes when you add milk or cream.

Now, feel the warmth of the mug in your hands. Tap your fingers on the sides of your cup or mug.

Finally — savor the incredible taste in measured sips — enjoying each sip as if it were your last.

Coffee makes you more social

People who consume a moderate amount of caffeine become more active participants in a group. Coffee drinkers become more alert, less tired, and more sociable.

Coffee makes you more gregarious — helping you connect with others — and may even be an effective tool to reduce your social anxiety.

Drinking coffee can be the great connector. Your love of java will transcend any differences between you and someone else as you share your common love of coffee!

Go into any local coffee shop and you’ll see coffee drinkers interacting somewhat differently than in other places with more casual conversation and the exchanging of thoughts and knowledge.

Coffee can help your heart

Drinking moderate amounts of caffeinated coffee reduces inflammation within your blood vessels, which helps to lower your risk of heart disease.

Research indicates that women get even more of a benefit from drinking coffee than men, as there are lower rates of adverse heart incidents among female coffee drinkers.

Coffee prevents or slows dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

One study found that coffee drinkers at midlife had lower risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease later in life compared to those drinking no or only little coffee.

The lowest risk — a drop of 65 percent — was found among moderate coffee drinkers — those who drink 3–5 cups of coffee per day.

Coffee is self care

When you’re feeling exhausted, less tolerant, irritable, frustrated — or even burned out — you can prepare or enjoy a nice cup of coffee to help you regulate and show self love and self care.

Your coffee can be a nice diversion or deserved respite from feeling over-worked, over-taxed, and over-tired.

Enjoy your java alone, or value that time of sharing a cup of coffee with friends.

It helps your journey of emotional healing to enjoy a cup of coffee.

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I’m an Emotional Healing Coach. I’ve helped hundreds of people — professional athletes, performers, business leaders, parents — heal from emotional trauma and toxic stress. Feel happier, more joy and achieve Peak Performance! Get your Ultimate Guide to Begin Your Emotional Healing