Dr Emily - What To Do With Envy

About this episode

Dr Emily Musgrove discusses the nature of envy and how to manage it in our lives.

What is your envy telling you? 💌Join 7,000+ people getting our takeaways and favourite moments from this episode in our weekly newsletter -  http://bit.ly/45NyQDy Dr Emily Musgrove, our resident psychologist, is back in the studio to talk about the green-eyed monster, and more importantly, how we can work with it to incorporate more gratitude, appreciation and awareness into our lives (hallelujah). Founded in the evolutionary practice of assessing our status in comparison with others, envy comes from the feeling of lacking something that someone else has. In what may have been an adaptive function for a cave person to secure their basic needs, our brains are not equipped for the intense comparison fed to us via social media. Dr Emily chats to Hugh, Ryan and Josh about the layered experience of envy, and how often, it stems from feeling not-enough or unworthy. Of course, Dr Emily brings the strategies. We explore how to work with envy in our own lives, and how to acknowledge it in the lives of our friends and family to protect important relationships. Dr Em, we’ll see you for the sequel on jealousy soon. To watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/B7acUnoekSc 0:00…

People in this episode

Hosts: Hugh van Cuylenburg, Ryan Shelton, Josh van Cuylenburg

Guest: Dr Emily Musgrove

Topics covered

• envy
• gratitude
• self-worth
• relationships
• psychology

Keywords

• envy
• jealousy
• self-improvement
• psychology
• gratitude

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