Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Mikkel, and today we're talking about sadness.

Hey guys, what's up?

Welcome to another week of the podcast today. be honest with you all I've had a

really emotional week there's been a lot of ups and downs and kind of inspired me to

talk about today's podcast topic which is sadness one of the questions I got from one of the listeners

was asking if it's okay to cry and kind of some of her fears about crying. So we're going to talk

about that. But first, I want to read a review from Hannah Woohoo. She wrote, I absolutely love this podcast.

There is so much advice for teens, especially since I'm just about to start high school.

My favorite episodes were about self-love and confidence. I love how you broke it down into

four categories and showed how none of those had to do with yourself. I love how you broke it down into four categories and showed how none

of those had to do with yourself. I love listening to this in the morning as I get ready.

Thanks so much, Hannah. And if you guys haven't checked out that confidence episode, it's a good

one. Definitely go give me to listen. But to get into today's topic and talk about crying and sadness, a lot of us have

shame about being sad. That it's a bad thing, that we shouldn't feel sad that something's

wrong with us if we do.

And we have this need to try to fix it.

And maybe you got this message from parents or friends that, you know, they noticed you are sad and they try to do something to hurry and make you feel better.

And so we learn from a very young age that we should always be

happy. The happiness is the only thing we should be experiencing and we shouldn't be feeling

any negative emotions and if we are feeling negative emotions that there's something wrong.

We need to get something fixed, we need to change

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