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292. Letting Go of the Need for Closure: Why Life’s Biggest Problems Can Only Be Outgrown
Closure often feels like it should be the goal when we're dealing with grief or going through a tough time. But what if closure is actually a myth and the pressure to "get over it," "fix it," or emerge as a better...
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291. Letting Go of the Stories You Tell Yourself: Is It True? Is It Helpful? Is It Kind?
It's great that us humans are storytellers... except when we tell rigid, oversimplified stories about who we are, what happened to us, and what’s possible next. The solution is not to get rid of our stories as they...
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290. Letting Go of Intrusive Thoughts & Rumination: The Pink Elephant Paradox, The Whac-A-Mole Problem, & Skills That Actually Help
Intrusive thoughts, rumination, worrying... these are nearly universal experiences and the most important thing, particularly when it comes to intrusive thoughts, is that the content doesn't matter as much as what you...
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289. What Are You Holding On To? The Science & Skill of Letting Go
We define "Letting Go" as the skill of loosening your grip on the thoughts and behaviors that keep you anchored to the past, resisting the present, or anxious about the future. And the goal isn't just to be more...
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288. A Mental Health Podcast With No Ads? Why We Refuse Ads & How Joy Lab Keeps Going
If you've listened to a wellness or health podcast lately, you've probably heard loads of advertisements. We've decided that ads are not a good fit for Joy Lab because they can steal your focus from the important...
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287. Who Are You Trying to Be Enough For? The Psychology of Being Enough & Building Self-Worth
Are you struggling with not feeling like "enough?" This is actually a common feeling that can get wrapped up or conflated with stress, burnout, depression, anxiety, and so many other mental health struggles. The good...
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286. It's OK to Be Wrong: Releasing Perfectionism & Building the Skill of Knowing Enough
What does it means to know enough, and why do so many of us have our sense of self-worth tangled up with the need to appear certain, informed, and never wrong? The common obstacles of perfectionism, yearning for power...
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285. Why Doing Enough Is Enough + Why Perfectionism Predicts Burnout, Depression, & Anxiety, Not Performance
Do you feel like you have to prove your worth through the shear amount of work you do or prove your value by making sure you're seen as busy, always hustling, and super productive? Do you feel burned out, overwhelmed...
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284. Having Enough: Why Acquiring More Will Never Fill the Hole in Your Self-Worth
It's easy to feel like you don't have enough; it's the message we constantly receive through media and advertisements. It's the message that once you have this thing, or make this much, then you will be happy... all...
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283. You Are Enough: The Science and Practices of Enoughness
Experiences with stress, depression, and anxiety are often paired with feelings of not measuring up or that you're not enough. However, feeling that you're lacking in some way is not limited to a mental health...
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282. Manage Energy, Not Time for Better Mood and Mental Health (encore)
Rest and recreation are essential tools for resilience and good mental health as they help support the biological rhythms your body is already running. We'll dig into these rhythms more in this episode by breaking...
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281. Rest Isn't the Opposite of Productivity (stress management tips & burnout recovery for us busy-busy humans) (encore)
We're constantly swamped by messages like rest or idleness leads to laziness or that if you rest, then you'll fall behind — it's been repeated by so many self-proclaimed gurus, business experts, and biohacking...
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