Podcast 480: Why we need to fall in love with our emotions

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about why falling in love with your emotions is one of the best things you can do to improve your mental health! As you have heard me say many times before, we cannot run from or suppress our emotions. We need to get comfortable with feeling - even the emotions that don’t make us feel so great in the moment. We need to be okay with saying things like “I feel sad” or “I feel anxious”.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

0:45 Why we need to change the way we think about our emotions

1:20 What our emotions can tell us about ourselves

2:23 How we see our emotions can affect our mental health

6:15 What happens when we start falling in love with our emotions

7:50 Emotions are invitations to explore & get to know ourselves better

10:24 Why we need to become aware of how we feel

12:00 How to listen to what our emotions are telling us

17:50 Why we all need to fall in love with our emotions

19:00 How to identify & learn from your emotions

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:09.6	Today I'm going to talk to you about falling in love with your emotions.
0:15.1	And that may sound crazy because sometimes we just like not to have our emotions because
0:18.5	they're just so overwhelming.
0:20.3	Or when they're nice emotions and they make you feel great, all then we want more of
0:24.0	those.
0:25.4	But we are living in an era where emotions are really misunderstood and that's why I
0:30.6	feel such a need to share this with you.
0:36.2	And if you've heard me talk about emotions before you may hear some of the same things
0:39.9	but you can't hear this more.
0:41.8	Then you can hear this multiple times and still get so much benefit out of it.
0:45.6	Okay, so basically we are in an era where we are told that emotions are either good or bad
0:52.9	and that you've got to identify the bad emotions because those bad emotions are basically
0:57.0	some kind of signal of a mental illness, a kind of chemical imbalance or neurobiological
1:04.8	disease and that you therefore need to get rid of those because they symptoms of that
1:09.4	disease and once you get rid of those you'll kind of be better or get them kind of a symptom
1:14.9	that you want to eliminate.
1:16.8	And that could not be further from the truth.
1:20.2	Emotions, the good, the bad and the ugly are amazing.
1:24.6	They're so good for you.
1:26.2	They tell you so much about how you function as a human being.
1:31.6	Research was done a couple of years back with the University of Texas and University of
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