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I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindful Kind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger

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Each week this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress

and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 299 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

In the previous episode of the Mindful Kind called Why It Can Be Helpful to Assume the Best,

I mentioned that disappointment can sometimes be a natural thing to experience whenever you make an effort to assume the best, I mentioned that disappointment can sometimes be a natural thing to experience

whenever you make an effort to assume the best. Disappointment can also be a common experience

especially for optimistic people who tend to keep high hopes for the future. However, disappointment

can happen to just about anyone at different times and it can be really

helpful to know some strategies for dealing with it.

Disappointment has been defined as a type of sadness that occurs when your hopes or expectations

don't work out the way you wanted them to.

It can be a mild experience like when you go shopping and the supermarket doesn't have all the

things that you need, or it can be quite a strong experience like not you go shopping and the supermarket doesn't have all the things that you need,

or it can be quite a strong experience like not getting a promotion you worked really hard for,

or finding out that you failed an important task.

So there's lots to cover in this episode about strategies for dealing with disappointment,

and I'm keen to dive straight in.

Please keep in mind that these aren't the only strategies that can help you deal with disappointment

and some of these strategies might also work better for you than others.

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