Speaker 1: Pushkin, Hey listeners, while we're hard at work creating new
Speaker 1: episodes of a slight change of Plans for you, I've
Speaker 1: got something special to share this week. It's a preview
Speaker 1: of the new season of The Happiness Lab, hosted by
Speaker 1: my friend and mentor, doctor Laurie Santos. On the Happiness Lab,
Speaker 1: Laurie shares evidence based research that will challenge your understanding
Speaker 1: of what it means to live a happy life, based
Speaker 1: on a psychology course she teaches at Yale, the most
Speaker 1: popular class in the university's history. You'll hear inspiring and
Speaker 1: surprising stories that will make you think differently about your
Speaker 1: own happiness. This season, she's helping us navigate something. We
Speaker 1: tend to avoid bad feelings, but Laurie asks, what if
Speaker 1: these bad feelings are telling us something important. Laurie's joined
Speaker 1: by leading experts like Burnee Brown, Adam Grant, and Susan David,
Speaker 1: who share practical tips to put guilt, anxiety, and burnout
Speaker 1: to good use. In twenty twenty two, here's a preview
Speaker 1: of the new season of The Happiness Lab. You can
Speaker 1: listen to more episodes by searching for the Happiness Lab
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. People will do just about
Speaker 1: anything to avoid pain, including cause pain. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the yucky emotions in life, most of us would
Speaker 1: prefer to suppress them, run away from them, or pretend
Speaker 1: they're just not there. It's a huge part of the
Speaker 1: mythology around emotion that if we look at in the eye,
Speaker 1: it gives it power, when the reality is if we
Speaker 1: look at in the eye and name it, it it gives
Speaker 1: us power. I'm doctor Laurie Santos, and in the new
Speaker 1: season of The Happiness Lab, I want to suggest that
Speaker 1: we might be able to reset our relationship with our
Speaker 1: emotions in the new year. We all experience stuff like sadness, anxiety,
Speaker 1: and guilt, but in twenty twenty two, I want to
Speaker 1: help you look at negative emotions in a new light
Speaker 1: by heating the advice of experts like Burnee Brown. The
Speaker 1: bad news is the less we talk about it, the
Speaker 1: more we experience it. But we need to learn how
Speaker 1: to recognize emotions in self and others. We'll look at
Speaker 1: some of the most powerful and potentially destructive emotions fresh eyes.
Speaker 1: I was always that person that was mad about injustice
Speaker 1: and mad about how other people treated and wanted to
Speaker 1: punch the sun at a very young age, and we'll
Speaker 1: see that even nasty feelings like anger are important signals
Speaker 1: to pay attention to. It's the nervous system getting wound
Speaker 1: up enough to do something. Anger is your body directing
Speaker 1: you to create change. In addition to the white hot
Speaker 1: emotions like rage, we'll also deal with those upsetting, listless
Speaker 1: feelings like burnout. There's a whole spectrum of well being
Speaker 1: and Adam Grant will help us explore an overlooked emotion
Speaker 1: that many of us feel right now. On one extreme,
Speaker 1: you have depression or anxiety. On the other extreme, you
Speaker 1: have flourishing or thriving. And we don't really talk about
Speaker 1: the neglected middle child, which is languishing. And in a
Speaker 1: special two part show, we'll take a deep dive into
Speaker 1: an emotion that many of us struggle with, an even dread,
Speaker 1: perhaps the most negative of negative emotions. I pause, you negative?
Speaker 1: Why are they negative? What makes them bad? I'll talk
Speaker 1: to psychotherapist Julius Samuel about how we can reimagine our
Speaker 1: relationship with loss. No one wants to burst in tears
Speaker 1: in front of lots of strangers in the supermarket, and
Speaker 1: how we can even grieve better as you express it,
Speaker 1: something shifts. She'll draw both on her years of practice
Speaker 1: and the deeply personal experience she had losing her close friend,
Speaker 1: Princess Diana. One of the things I love most about
Speaker 1: Diana was her laugh. She had this incredibly raucous laugh.
Speaker 1: It was really quite loud, and she often put her
Speaker 1: hand to her mouth, and it was incredibly infectious. The
Speaker 1: new year is a great time to reset your relationship
Speaker 1: with your emotions, so join me for the next season
Speaker 1: of The Happiness Lab from January third, wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts, and as a special added bonus, I'll also
Speaker 1: be creating six meditations based on the ideas in these episodes.
Speaker 1: They'll be available exclusively for Pushkin Plus subscribers. Pushkin Plus
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Speaker 1: across many Pushkin industry shows. I hope to see you
Speaker 1: back soon for our emotional reset in the new year.
Speaker 1: Until then, stay safe and stay happy. That was a
Speaker 1: preview of the new season of The Happiness Lab. Learn
Speaker 1: more about embracing negative emotions in the New Year by
Speaker 1: listening to the Happiness Lab wherever you get your podcasts.