Why Ignoring Your Emotions is Destroying Your Health (And What You Should Be Doing Instead)

About this episode

The episode discusses the detrimental effects of ignoring emotions on health and offers insights on emotional self-care.

What if the reason you can't sleep, can't focus, and come home completely depleted has nothing to do with your schedule — and everything to do with what you're doing to your emotions? In this episode, Dr. Glenn Hill, Phyllis Hill, and Tera Wages go deep on one of the most important — and most overlooked — tools in the Connection Codes toolkit: oohing yourself . Not your partner. Not your kids. Yourself. We've all been taught some version of "don't be emotional," "choose joy," "power through." But what that messaging actually does is train us to reject ourselves at the deepest level. And the cost? It shows up in your body, your sleep, your productivity, your relationships, and your health. In this episode, you'll discover: Why suppressing emotions doesn't make them disappear — it sends them straight into your cells (and the science behind what that does to your body) The 3 powerful questions that help you tune into yourself in under 60 seconds How a woman's 12-year battle with insomnia ended after one night of doing the Core Emotion Wheel Why "positive thinking" culture may actually be working against your emotional health The real reason…

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Glenn Hill, Phyllis Hill, Tera Wages

Topics covered

• emotional health
• self-care
• mental well-being
• insomnia
• emotional suppression
• productivity

Keywords

• emotions
• health
• sleep
• productivity
• Core Emotion Wheel
• positive thinking
• fear
• shame
• hurt

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