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Conversations with Friends: Have You Been Languishing?
Enlightened Empaths
Samantha Fey and Denise Correll
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Please join us today as we chat about languishing, that blah feeling of stagnation and emptiness that a lot of people have been feeling over this past year.
Many of us started out with the attitude to try and make the most of more time at home, excited to start more of a routine with a health regiment or to tackle those projects relegated to the back burner for far too long.
But instead, we landed in the place of languishing, caught between flourishing well being and depressive despondency. Here many have been treading water, feeling unmotivated, perhaps unfocused and very much ready to move forward.
Please know you’re not alone and if you are feeling that something may be more serious or long term in your life with depression or anxiety, please contact your physician or contact the mental health hotline:
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This episode is based on an article by Adam Grant and was originally posted in the NY Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened. |
| 0:06.0 | This week we're going to talk about a New York Times article Denise and I read and I posted on |
| 0:10.9 | our Facebook page, we've gotten a lot of good feedback on it. |
| 0:13.7 | It was written by Adam Grant and it's about this concept called |
| 0:17.4 | languishing and it discusses how a lot of us throughout this pandemic time have felt this emotion of |
| 0:26.2 | aimlessness of floating in this timeless space of not really knowing what's going |
| 0:31.2 | on where we're going how we we're feeling. It's often called the middle |
| 0:35.2 | child of mental health because a lot of people don't really understand what languishing is. So you can check out the article on our |
| 0:45.4 | Facebook page but Denise and I thought it would be a nice idea to discuss how |
| 0:49.8 | languishing can especially affect the empath. It's not burnout, it's not depression, it's not |
| 0:57.6 | hopelessness. Languishing is just this lack of joy or ambition, It's this sense of feeling aimless. The article calls it |
| 1:07.0 | a sense of stagnation and emptiness and claims it's the dominant emotion of 2021. |
| 1:14.5 | What do you think about that? |
| 1:16.4 | I think it's spot on because so many of us are on this loop tape. |
| 1:20.4 | We're on this get up, go through the routine. Do what we need to do. Some of the positive things of what we've been through, you know, being at home more, getting more time with families. I mean, we can go through the pros and cons list of this but I love this article because it |
| 1:34.7 | really summarized what so many people are feeling and experiencing right now. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah I agree I agree in the article he says that in the uncertain days of the pandemic, it's likely your brain's threat detection system called the amygdala was on high alert for fight or flight. |
| 1:54.3 | But as you learned that masks protect us |
| 1:57.2 | and we kind of got used to this new routine of this new normal, |
| 2:01.4 | it eased our sense of dread. But he says as the pandemic has dragged on, that acute state of anguish has given way to a chronic condition of language. |
| 2:12.0 | And so the article talks about how it's kind of this feeling of not wanting to get up out of bed in the morning or not looking forward to going to work or spending hours |
| 2:24.7 | for all to cross the couch streaming Netflix or Hulu. It's that feeling of |
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