The 50-50 of Life

I had a conversation recently with a client that she said was so helpful to her, that I wanted to share it with our podcast listeners too!

We talked about the fact that life is 50% positive emotion and 50% negative emotion, but that most of us were taught to ignore or repress any of our negative emotions. This turns out to be a real problem, especially for those of us on a weight loss journey, because until we learn to accept - and perhaps even celebrate - our negative emotions, we will continue to work very hard to buffer them with food or alcohol or some other escape.

Today Marchelle and I dive more deeply into this idea that life is 50:50… and explain how to accept and manage our very human emotional lives.

Episode Highlights:

(4:57) Life is 50-50… and what I’m experiencing now as part of the 50-50 of life, is normal, nothing is going wrong.

(07:08) Society has told us that it is not ok for women to be emotional, or you are crazy. We’ve always wanted to suppress that so people don’t think we have emotional instability, which is totally wrong, it’s ok if you are not feeling ok.

(09:15) Anxiety is fear. So if you’re feeling anxiety, then you’re probably afraid of something, because anxiety is just a fear of fear!