414. How to get out of a funk
The Psychology of your 20s
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When we’re ‘in a funk’, we might feel that things just aren’t going right for us, we can’t catch a break, and that life generally feels pretty flat. What’s more, we can tend to look at the world through a negative lens - which makes things worse.
In this episode, we look at why we get stuck in a funk, how our approach to fix it can lead us astray, and how we can get ourselves out of one by honouring our soul needs, reconnecting with nature, and more.
We unpack:
• The key differences between being in a funk and clinical depression
• Why monotony and boredom keep us stuck
• The danger of telling yourself to just ‘snap out of it’
• The importance of honouring our ‘soul needs’
• What we can do to rewire our brain towards a brighter future
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.4 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to have you |
| 0:32.1 | here back for another episode as we break down the psychology of our 20s before we get into it. |
| 0:39.5 | I know I said this in the last episode, but I want to keep reminding you all that this |
| 0:43.6 | episode of the podcast and many others are now on Netflix in the UK, Australia, Canada, US, Germany, |
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| 0:55.2 | So if you are a fan of watching podcasts, watching this podcast, as you listen to it, this is your |
| 1:01.6 | chance. You can go and watch the video version of this very episode right now. Just go and |
| 1:06.7 | search the psychology of your 20s on your Netflix app. Give it a go. See what all the fuss is about. |
| 1:13.2 | See what I can't shut up about. And I hope you enjoy it. Today, we are talking about how to get out |
| 1:19.9 | of a funk, how to get out of a season of life that honestly just feels very bland. And than just bland feels very boring, frustrating, |
| 1:31.2 | maybe even slightly depressing. I think it is so totally normal to go through periods like this, |
| 1:37.2 | to go through periods where things are just not on the vibrational length that you want them to be, |
| 1:41.6 | but what can be worrying is when it begins to tank our entire |
| 1:46.9 | perception of life. And we think that we're never going to get out of this state of mind. And it changes |
| 1:52.6 | what we think we're capable of. It changes what we think the world is capable of. I found myself in a funk |
| 1:58.0 | these past few months. I was just angry. I was just really angry at how |
| 2:02.3 | much is required to simply be an adult and I was angry at the world and I was angry at everybody |
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