Ep. 529: Cutting Back on Cussing, Easier Traveling & Do Possessions Have Feelings?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We explore the surprising benefits of swearing—from pain tolerance to social bonding—while also discussing why cutting back on cussing might still improve conversation quality and emotional climate. We share a listener hack for making a long, frequent car trip easier. We also consider a Know-Yourself- Better question about possessions, and we tackle a poignant listener question about maintaining family connections with adult children who seem to be creating unexpected distance after marriage.

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1:12.9	Lemonada.
1:34.8	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and suggestions for making our lives happier.
1:41.2	This week we'll talk about cutting back on cussing and our relationships with possessions.
1:45.4	I have to say, our relationships with possessions is something that has fascinated me ever since law school. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good
1:51.1	habits, secrets of adulthood. Usually I'm in my little home office in New York City, but today I'm
1:56.5	actually in Los Angeles in the home of my sister Elizabeth Kraft, my sister to Sage.
2:02.2	That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And yes, Scratch, I'm going
2:07.5	to your event tonight. If anybody wants to join us, they should look up your events and come see you.
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