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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 433: A Surprising Way to Lift Your Mood, How to Decide Where to Move & Ideas for a Rebel Father

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We discuss a counter-intuitive and creative way to boost our spirits, and talk about a terrific hack for people who need to decide where to move. Also, we share many listener suggestions about how to communicate effectively with a Rebel father who won’t use his wheelchair or his medical-alert device. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/433 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting edge science, The Wisdom

0:07.1

of the Ages, Lessons from Pop Culture, and our own experiences about how to be happier.

0:12.4

This week we'll talk about a surprising way to give yourself a boost and we'll share

0:16.7

listeners fascinating and helpful suggestions for the rebel daughter of the rebel father

0:22.8

who doesn't want to use his wheelchair or medical alert necklace.

0:30.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness could have it.

0:41.9

The Five Senses Human Nature.

0:43.9

I'm back in my little home office here in New York City and joining me today from Los

0:48.2

Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Adelijeth Albe Singh, you soon.

0:51.9

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes Gretchen I am

0:57.3

coming to New York to go to Eleanor's graduation from a high school where you are going to be

1:04.0

giving the commencement address.

1:06.0

Yes, I'm very excited, it's a big responsibility.

1:09.9

It really is, I can't wait, it's gonna be a big day.

1:13.7

Yeah and it's so nice that you can come, it'll be such a fun visit.

1:17.6

And then Gretchen I wanted to mention to everyone another fun thing which is that you were

1:23.2

on my sister-in-law Olivia's podcast talking about life in five senses.

1:29.5

Yes, she has such a great book club, she's such a reader.

1:32.6

So it was a huge honor to be included in her book club and it was so fun for us to be,

1:38.0

what are we, we're like sisters-in-law once removed or by marriage or something yes,

1:43.4

but we definitely, definitely feels like family so it was super fun to talk to her.

1:47.4

So everyone check out Olivia's book club and Gretchen is on the most recent episode.

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