Little Happier: Sometimes We Lash Out in Anger When In Fact We’re Feeling a Very Different Emotion

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A poignant scene from Meredith Hall’s novel Beneficence, where a husband and father speaks with harsh words to deny his regrets, reminds me to show my love; others can only see my actions. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. 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—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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

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0:30.6	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:34.5	Recently I read The Novel Beneficence by Meredith Hall.
0:38.6	It's the story of a family, Thomas and Doris Center and their three children, and their
0:44.1	life over the decades on a dairy farm in Maine.
0:48.2	One section of the novel is narrated by the father Thomas, who is nicknamed TEP.
0:53.6	TEP describes a day when he and his family are getting ready to go to a July 4th, supper
0:58.2	and dance.
1:00.0	He and his two young sons have spent the day making little bandsaw boxes out of maple
1:04.7	prunings for a church raffle.
1:07.6	They have a pleasant time making the three little boxes, then put them on the kitchen
1:11.5	table where Doris, TEP's wife and the boy's mother, sees them.
1:17.1	Here's the scene that the novel describes.
1:20.6	Oh, Doris said, they're wonderful!
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