S10 EP24: Does Venting Actually Make You Feel Better?
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Let’s get this right out there..venting IS complaining. Same thing. On average people complain 15-30 times per day. Imagine if we laughed 30 times a day? Ask yourself: does venting really make you feel better? Venting has been called a healthy behavior but we are going to challenge that today with some neuroscience. We agree venting is a behavior…a practiced one! You are practicing every day who you want to be. Venting carves deep neural pathways in your brain and shrinks your hypothalamus, which has a direct correlation to your lifespan.
This episode is so important because it’s about how you interact with yourself and the world and the energy that you bring and get back in your relationships. Want to share your experiences? Be heard? Feel understood? You can do all those things without damaging your brain. Don’t miss this opportunity for growth. We’ll tell you how to identify your feelings and release them with purpose for positive outcomes. Listen for tips on how to rewire your brain and practice at the person you want to be!
(00:00:00) We welcome you to the podcast and get personal.
(00:08:20) Why today’s topic made Rachael rethink her life.
(00:11:48) Venting and complaining…they are the same thing.
(00:14:45) Average amount of times a day people complain and how practicing a behavior trains your brain.
(00:20:03) The science and behavior patterns that deepen neurological pathways.
(00:25:15) What happens to your brain when you listen to someone else venting.
(00:29:28) The size of your hypothalamus has a direct correlation to your lifespan and what venting does to it.
(00:33:48) How venting promotes inaction, not steps to solve the problem.
(00:36:32) You don’t have to keep it in! There’s a healthy solution for growth!
(00:43:42) Cortisol spikes during venting without acting.
(00:45:50) When your go-to emotion is stress and how to see an opportunity.
(00:55:15) Alternatives to venting and action steps to productivity and growth.
(01:05:27) When to lean it out or let it go.
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| 0:00.0 | having to get away from those repetitive thoughts and having to form new ones is a really difficult |
| 0:07.6 | process. And I think the part of that that becomes kind of really hopeful for us is that you are |
| 0:13.2 | able to rewire new pathways. You are able to develop new behaviors, but it does take the |
| 0:20.3 | acknowledgement of the behavior and the practice |
| 0:22.5 | repeatedly to fire new pathways to the person that you want to be. |
| 0:30.9 | Hi, guys, and welcome back to the Thick Die Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome back to another week, guys. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Rachel. |
| 0:37.3 | We're so happy to have |
| 0:38.3 | you back. And what's happening this week? What's, what's going on? What's going on in the world? What's |
| 0:45.0 | going on in the life? What's happening? What are the feels? What are we doing? What are we feeling? |
| 0:50.9 | What's happening, Kelsey? Well, uh, I'll tell you about my life I'm just doing a bunch of |
| 0:58.8 | things I'm moving right now I'm having I'm pregnant there's a lot going on right now but all |
| 1:06.8 | exciting change things I did want to mention know, a couple people had asked me |
| 1:12.3 | on my Instagram to elaborate, and hopefully I can get this right because there was a bunch of |
| 1:19.2 | questions, but I didn't have it right in the top of my mind. But to elaborate on, I had said |
| 1:24.5 | something on my Instagram when I talked about like workouts and some of the |
| 1:28.1 | pelvic floor things that I've been doing. And one of the phrases that I've been using is just |
| 1:32.3 | because you can doesn't mean you should. And someone kind of asked me to explain that because I think a lot |
| 1:38.6 | of, and this doesn't just apply to pregnancy, I know this has happened with a lot of injuries or, you know, any type of like |
| 1:45.8 | recovery things, but I think it's particularly prevalent with pregnancy because they're kind |
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