You're listening to The Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode number 560.

And we're talking about, well, the full range of human emotion today, which is so critical to understand that being a confident, happy, positive person includes also experiencing and processing and feeling negativity and sadness.

And so today's episode is negativity and sadness. How to not let them overwhelm you. In this episode, we're going to explore the balance between confidence, happiness, and the reality of also being a human who has a full human range of emotions.

I'm going to give you some new approaches to understanding and effectively engaging with emotions, allowing them to become powerful tools for personal growth and resilience.

This is going to be an episode that's going to help you foster not just your emotional well-being, but your emotional fitness.

So that you can embrace on the journey of your growth, of your success path, of your experience of life, that you'll see that every emotion is a valuable teacher that helps you move forward along the way.

Even more specifically in this episode, I'm going to be coaching you on staying confident and happy while also experiencing negativity and sadness.

A new approach to you feeling your emotions and effectively talking to them, specifically negative emotions. It's something I'm calling the 5N process.

Brand new. I'm really excited about this as a tool and a cannot wait to share it with you. And then what not to do when you're sad and overwhelmed or find yourself in a season of struggle.

So what not to do before we go into that. I want to read a review of the week. This is from Macy Grant 30. I've been listening to your podcast for a couple of years now, but it's never changed anything about me.

So about four months ago, I prayed to God asking him to help with my confidence. I was sick of living a life full of insecurity that weighs me down on all sides of living a life where 90% of my thoughts were about myself and what I looked like.

Pause. Guys, that's exactly how I would describe how I used to be. I 100% resonate. Okay, Macy continues. I was tired of it.

And I've heard the way you've been changed. And so I decided to pray about it. A week later, I decided to join the COC. And the way God has been transforming my heart through your words is spectacular.

I am far from perfect, but I have now experienced more freedom than I ever have in my entire life. I now believe I can live differently. I believe I can live in freedom.

Thank you so much for always putting the time into create these podcasts. And for all the work you put into the COC, you are changing lives without knowing it.

Your story is absolutely amazing. And I appreciate how vulnerable you are in your podcast. You truly are an answered prayer. Macy, woman, I'm so proud of you.

I'm so honored that I get the privilege of walking this journey with you that I get to be part of a miraculous answer to prayer and part of your healing.

And I just thank you for being honest to say, hey, you were listening to this podcast for years. And it wasn't, it was, it was really encouraging. It encouraged you, but it didn't change you.

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