280 // How to Cope With Sadness

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 280 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll discover some ways to cope with sadness. First, here are some important things to keep in mind:

Sadness can be a normal experience and it's not something you have to ignore or push away
If you feel prolonged or intense sadness, it can be very helpful to check in with a mental health professional
Sadness won't always follow a "normal" pattern or make sense
There are also benefits of feeling sad (click here to check out an article about it)

Now, here are some strategies for dealing with sadness:

Acknowledge when you're feeling sad (without judgement)
Create time and space to slow down and do small, nice things that create pleasure
Talk about how you feel with someone you trust

If you're not sure who to talk to about sadness, I highly recommend my sponsor, BetterHelp, an online counselling service. Head over to betterhelp.com/themindfulkind to receive 10% off your first month.

Make sure you tune into the episode to discover some bonus strategies for coping with sadness from my wonderful Instagram community.

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the
0:08.9	Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at Rachelcable.com. Each week this podcast will bring
0:15.4	meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.1	Hello and welcome to episode 280 of the Mindful Kind podcast. A few weeks ago, one of my
0:31.1	wonderful clients told me about her recent loss and she asked me, how do you cope with feeling
0:36.9	sad?
0:38.2	With her permission, I decided to create this podcast episode and share some of the ideas
0:43.0	that we talked about because sadness is something many of us will experience perhaps many
0:48.3	times and there are lots of different ways to cope with it.
0:52.5	The first thing that I think is important to mention is that
0:55.1	sadness can be a normal experience. It can occur as a result of loss, loneliness, hormones,
1:03.1	childhood experiences, lack of sleep, life changes. I mean, there are so many reasons why
1:09.1	sadness can occur. It can even occur unexpectedly sometimes
1:13.3	for no really obvious reason. I know for me sadness used to feel super uncomfortable and I often
1:20.4	tried to ignore it or mask it with distracting activities or potentially unhelpful coping mechanisms
1:27.1	like shopping or drinking alcohol.
1:29.9	I found it very difficult to acknowledge I feel sad today and to just let that feeling be there.
1:36.6	But that's a huge lesson I've learned over the last couple of years.
1:40.8	Sometimes it's okay to feel sad and to just let that feeling be there and also to genuinely
1:47.0	support yourself through experiences of sadness by using some of the strategies in this episode
1:52.4	so it can gradually start to ease. However, prolonged or intense sadness could potentially
1:59.1	be a sign of something deeper going on and
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