Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations

about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.

I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

The episode is all about the key, really, to your mental and emotional resilience, the key to living

a life that feels like it's overflowing, it's full, it's rich. We're going to talk about it today.

This is episode 236 of the House of Joy podcast, and I am so grateful you're here. I'm going to make

this statement, and I want you to really take it in. If you're here. I'm going to make this statement and I want you to

really take it in. If you're sitting somewhere where you could write this down, write it down.

If not, go back and write it down later. But I do believe this is true. Every emotion you're willing

to process makes you stronger, healthier, freer. Every emotion you ignore, hide from, run from, react to,

eat instead of feel, scroll instead of feel. Every emotion you're unwilling to process

makes you weaker, less free, sicker, less joyful.

And that, my friends, is literally the key to the universe.

I really feel like, why don't they teach us this in school?

So I'm going to tell you a couple

stories that will illustrate this fact. I actually, well, first of all, I just got back from

voting my little town in Eastern Tennessee. You guys, it was probably double the people I have

ever seen at the polls. I am so proud of my little town. I was like, you go Bean Station. We vote at the

little Bean Station library and they had to, usually we just vote in at the little end room of

the library. They had to open up the whole thing. I was so proud of us. So go Bean Station. If you haven't

voted yet, go vote. But this past weekend, I led a weekend together with my coaches.

So as you know, I have two main programs, life mentoring school where I coach women to rewrite their stories, to live with more energy, purpose, and joy.

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