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#117: The Function of Emotions with Dr. Susan David
The Mark Groves Podcast
You Know, Tough Emotions Are Part of Our Contract With Life
Tough emotions are part of our contract with life. When we push aside those difficult emotions in the service of forced positivity, then what we actually do is make ourselves more fragile. We know that if we become ovarly focused on there being good and bad emotions, it leads to lower levels of mental health,. You find greater levels of will of depression in those kinds of contexts. People often haven't then developed the skills to deal with their difficult emotions. And so really what i mean is that when we only allow ourselves to to speak into this idea of being positive all the time, it doesn't make us positive. It actually shrinks our capacity to be effective with ourselves,
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