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Embrace the Suck: Real Emotional Fitness Strategies | Dr. Emily Anhalt

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CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Feeling like 'self-care' is just another word for avoiding your problems? Psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt joins the boys to unpack the concept of Emotional Fitness — a proactive approach to mental health that involves leaning into discomfort, not away from it. Discover the 7 traits of emotionally fit people (including mindfulness, resilience, and playfulness!) and learn practical 'emotional push-ups' you can do daily to build strength, even when it sucks. Dr. Anhalt breaks down why waiting until 'shit hits the fan' isn't the best strategy, how to reframe negative self-talk by talking to your 'inner five-year-old', and why true growth comes from embracing the uncomfortable. Get ready to flex your feelings and ditch the B.S. self-care trends.  


Be sure to check out Dr. Ahalt's new book: https://www.dremilyanhalt.com/book


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0:30.3

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0:34.6

The term self-care has fended so hard in the last few years, and that's a good thing.

0:39.8

But it's also gotten totally co-opted and bastardized to the point that I feel like these days, self-care means, like, I'm just going to do whatever the hell I want and call it self-care.

0:48.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:49.2

It's almost like the sort of diet pill of emotional health.

0:53.0

And that shit just does not work. Why are self-care routines always self-destructive things? It's like, oh, I'm going to lay in bed until one o'clock, not do any of the work that I'm supposed to do, order Uber Eats, because I don't feel like making healthy for hours on end. Yeah, and I'm just like, that's self-care for me. It's the antiposis of self-care.

1:11.8

Why is that?

1:12.8

Well, that's why I don't like the term,

1:14.6

because I think self-care now just means

1:16.4

unclenching from the exhausting realities of life.

1:20.5

And we do need to do that from time to time, right?

1:22.6

I'm not anti-masturbating all day.

1:25.9

Do what you got to do, right?

1:27.2

Me neither.

1:28.0

Me neither.

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