394: The science of venting your feelings | Psychologist Ethan Kross, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ethan Kross, Ph.D.: “Your inner voice is a remarkable super power.” Kross, an award-winning psychologist and bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to have productive inner dialogue, plus: - How to control the negative voice inside your head (~07:06) - What to do if you wake up in the middle of the night feeling overwhelmed (~12:28) - Why people tend to clean when they're stressed (~17:13) - Why venting your feelings is not always productive (~23:05) - How to show support a loved one struggling with mental health (~27:55) Referenced in the episode: - Kross' book, Chatter. - A study on proximity to green space and well-being. - A study on awe experiences. - A study on third-person self-talk. - Research showing stress results in ritualized behavior. - A study on venting emotions after 9/11. - Niall Bolger's research on invisible support. Take 25% off our sleep support+ with code SLEEP25. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Ethan Cross is one of the world's leading experts on controlling
0:52.9	the conscious mind. An award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and the Ross School
0:58.8	of Business, he is the director of the emotion and self-control laboratory. He's been interviewed
1:05.7	on CVS's evening news, GMA, CNN and NPR among others. His pioneering research has been featured
1:14.2	in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New England
1:19.4	Journal of Medicine and Science. He completed his BA at the University of Pennsylvania at his
1:25.4	PhD at Columbia and today he's here to chat about his best-selling book, Shatter. The voice in our
1:32.7	head, why it matters and how to harness it. Ethan, welcome. Thanks for having me, Jason. Delight to
1:42.0	be here. So great to have you. The title of the book is Shatter. The voice in our head and why
1:49.1	it matters and how to harness it. So definitely one of the titles that came across my desk where I
1:53.9	stopped and said, this is interesting. And so the book is interesting. It's a great read. And like
2:01.6	so many leaders in the health and wellness world, a book or a company starts with a powerful
2:07.2	personal story and you have one as well. So let's start with your personal story, your own
2:13.7	chatter regarding a letter you received. Yeah, happy to. I was about a little over 10 years,
2:21.2	I guess around 10 years ago, we're more marketing the 10-year anniversary of the letter I talk about
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