Liz Fosslien on Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay EP 128

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John R. Miles

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Liz Fosslien - Big Feelings: how to be okay when things are not okay. | Brought to you by Raycon (https://buyraycon.com/passionstruck) and Athletic Greens (https://athleticgreens.com/passionstruck). Liz is an expert on how to make work better and the co-author (Mollie West Duffy) and illustrator of the books Big Feelings and No Hard Feelings. Liz also leads content and communications at Humu, a company that uses behavioral science to make it easy for leaders and their teams to improve. Her work has been featured by TED, The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, and NPR. Overwhelmed by Big Feelings Uncertainty. Anger. Despair. Envy. When you’re overwhelmed by big feelings, it can seem like you’re the only one who is struggling. But having difficult emotions doesn’t mean you’re malfunctioning. It means you’re human. Weaving surprising science with personal stories and original illustrations, each chapter of the new book Big Feelings examines one uncomfortable feeling—like envy, burnout, and anxiety—and lays out strategies for making it manageable. Big Feelings is an insightful and approachable Illustrated Guide to Handling our most difficult emotions Thank You to Our Sponsors

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Big Feelings: https://amzn.to/3Kbo9Ob
No Hard Feelings: https://amzn.to/3kcr7Y6
Susan Cain Interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rTEjH4FJn7iBuvu0FOSB2?si=h9PE1CUQTK2lcAdVGLrBow
Claude Silver interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SXKbsbfYQWlBNPdRn1c5k?si=VZdrjNJSTuiJU1hQ_xXjeQ
Solo episode on work-life balance: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7AZksXySbYVoMPMuma5DpB?si=_VPv5sn3QBCq2pYVh-LXkg
Solo episode on overcoming burnout: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5keAXxjRs3Q8NKZYWBlPXS?si=N-nf0iQjThSzgsCAutPVPA

Time Stamps:

0:00 Liz Fosslien introduction and announcements
4:25 Why we are taught that feeling bad is bad.
11:58 The big reveal.
15:34 Why Liz felt it was so important to write Big Feelings.
19:34 Why our self-narrative both helps and hurts our identity.
22:02 Why it is becoming harder for people to find balance and alleviate burnout.
25:13 The importance of post-traumatic growth
9:22 Effortless Perfection and Susan Cain's Bittersweet
36:56 Detaching your self-worth from what you do for work
46:10 The big feelings assessment
50:14 How to let go of what you can’t control.
54:21 The topic of uncertainty, the myths around it, and how you work through it.
57:49 We discuss her popular Instagram page.
1:01:58 Show wrap up.

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0:11.2	that a lot of our clients with perfectionist tendencies
0:14.2	actually don't really want to let go of those tendencies,
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0:23.1	But perfectionism has been proven to inhibit your performance.
0:27.1	So when you're a perfectionist and the key difference here is
0:30.8	perfectionism is about the fear of failure.
0:33.7	It's not actually about the coming perfect.
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