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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Dr Julie Smith ON: Unblocking Negative Emotions & How to Embrace Difficult Feelings

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jay Shetty sits down with Dr. Julie Smith to talk about how we deal with our emotions. As a way to cope with difficult situations, we often attempt to block the negative emotions. We tend to shut ourselves down without realizing that blocking negative emotions also means blocking any other emotion. We are built to feel positive and negative emotions everyday because that’s what makes us human.

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When you block emotion out, what you can end up doing

0:04.0

is blocking them all out.

0:05.2

So I'll often have people who get to therapy

0:08.4

after years of doing that.

0:10.3

And they feel numb.

0:12.0

And they not only have they managed to block out

0:14.4

all these negative emotions.

0:15.9

So life is less painful in that way.

0:18.6

It's almost become more painful

0:20.0

because they've also blocked out their ability

0:22.0

to feel joy or pleasure or love.

0:24.6

And they start to question,

0:25.8

gosh, do I love my partner.

0:27.5

Hey, everyone.

0:31.3

Welcome back to on purpose,

0:32.8

the number one health podcast in the world.

0:35.6

Thanks to each and every single one of you

0:37.6

that come back every week to listen, learn, and grow.

0:41.3

Now, today's guest is someone

0:42.7

that I've been following on social media

0:44.5

for nearly the past couple of years now.

0:46.5

And I have loved her content, the way she presents

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