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Hey, Happiness Lab listeners.

Welcome back to our special series on spring cleaning your happiness.

Today we're doing another trip into our back catalog to find some of my

favorite past episodes. And today's choice is a conversation I still come back to whenever I'm

facing a tough emotion. This episode is all about how to clean up the way you manage negative

feelings. And as happiness spring cleaning hacks go, the ones you're about to hear today are going to be super important.

Because negative emotions, feelings like sadness, anger, fear, overwhelm, they tend to come up on the regular these days.

And we don't often deal with these emotions all that well.

Sometimes we try to avoid difficult feelings by distracting ourselves, or trying to suppress what we're feeling.

Other times, we get very caught up in our negative emotions, keeping them alive through

rumination and worry.

But what if we used a healthier strategy?

What if we instead got curious about what our tough emotions were trying to tell us?

What if we looked more carefully at the solutions they might be suggesting?

These are the questions I'll be diving into in this episode. I'll chat with Harvard psychologist

Susan David about strategies we can use to get more agile with our tough emotions. And Susan

will share lots of tips we can use not to sweep our negative emotions away, but to embrace them

as healthy data points.

That's all coming up right after some quick words from the Happiness Lab sponsors.

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