About this episode

Julia Rogers and Angela Quiñones discuss the complexities of gratitude and its impact on emotional experiences.

In today’s episode hosts Julia Rogers and Angela Quiñones share their thoughts on the phrase: “be grateful, it could be worse” and the practices on gratitude at different levels and sometimes taken to extremes. They talk about: Being grateful and gratitude How sometimes can invalidate emotional experiences Emotional bypassing Boundaries You are allowed to complain People dont need fixing Here are the highlights of this episode: 0:55 The words grateful and gratitude 2:43 You can’t complain 4:16 It can invalidate emotional experiences 5:01 It stops you to think about what’s underneath 5:59 Emotional bypassing 9:16 Complaining as a way of processing what needs changing 10:39 Always being grateful and not complaining can also foster isolation 11:28 Negating the importance of the situation 13:37 Sometimes people just need to be heard

People in this episode

Hosts: Julia Rogers, Angela Quiñones

Topics covered

• gratitude
• emotional experiences
• emotional bypassing
• complaining
• boundaries
• validation

Keywords

• gratitude
• emotional bypassing
• complaining
• boundaries
• validation

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