Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about emotional spiraling.

Hey, what's up, guys?

Thanks for tuning in to another episode.

I am so excited to share this concept with y'all that I've been thinking a lot about,

and I think it'll be very, very helpful for you guys.

But first, it is listener shout out time.

So I wanted to share a review from silly 111-1-50.

But she wrote,

this podcast is the best podcast I have ever listened to.

The reason why is because the coach,

Mikkel, she's very inspirational and uses examples that have happened to her and things that we can all relate to. She's truly awesome. Thank you so much. I thought that was really,

really sweet.

So today we are talking about emotional spiraling.

Now, what even is that?

What do I mean when I say that?

This is something I have noticed in myself and in clients and friends and family members where what happens sometimes is we, our brains get very

dramatic and we have emotions and then we start having more negative emotions and more negative emotions and like all these

thoughts piling on top of each other and kind of the sense of trying to solve 101 problems all at once

and your sense of overwhelm and despair is just like compounding on itself and all your feelings are kind of

building up and you're about to like burst and I hope that this makes sense the way I'm explaining

it but it's something I've dealt with. I'm a big fan of thought work and being able to recognize your thinking and change it.

I think that there is a lot of power in that. But sometimes what happens is we can get two in our

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