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People will do just about anything to avoid pain, including cause pain.

When it comes to the yucky emotions in life, most of us would prefer to suppress them, run away from them, or pretend they're just not there.

It's a huge part of the mythology around emotion that if we look it in the eye, it gives it power. When the reality is if we look it in the eye and name it, it gives us power.

I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, and in the new season of the Happiness Lab, I want to suggest that we might be able to reset our relationship with our emotions in the new year.

We all experience stuff like sadness, anxiety, and guilt. But in 2022, I want to help you look at negative emotions in a new light by heating the advice of experts like Brunei Brown.

The bad news is the less we talk about it, the more we experience it, but we need to learn how to recognize emotions in self and others.

We'll look at some of the most powerful and potentially destructive emotions, fresh eyes.

I was always that person that was mad about injustice and mad about how other people treated and wanted to punch the sun at a very young age.

And we'll see that even nasty feelings like anger are important signals to pay attention to.

It's the nervous system getting wound up enough to do something. Anger is your body directing you to create change.

In addition to the white-hot emotions like rage, we'll also deal with those upsetting, listless feelings, like Brunei.

There's a whole spectrum of well-being.

And Adam Grant will help us explore and overlook the emotion that many of us feel right now.

On one extreme, you have depression or anxiety. On the other extreme, you have flourishing or thriving. And we don't really talk about neglected middle child, which is languishing.

And in a special two-part show, we'll take a deep dive into an emotion that many of us struggle with and even dread. Perhaps the most negative of negative emotions.

I pause you. Negative. Why are they negative? What makes them bad?

I'll talk to Psychotherapist Julia Samuel about how we can reimagine our relationship with loss.

No one wants to burst into tears in front of lots of strangers in the supermarket.

And how we can even grieve better. As you express it, something shifts.

She'll draw both on her years of practice and the deeply personal experience she had losing her close friend, Princess Diana.

One of the things I love most about Diana was her love.

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