About this episode

The episode explores the reasons behind chronic emotional numbness and how it can affect one's ability to feel joy.

Get 10% off your Pulsetto FIT here: https://pulsetto.tech/pages/drscott or use my coupon code DRSCOTT. It’s completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can test it and see how your body responds.If you used to feel everything and now you mostly feel numb, there may be a reason. Sometimes emotional numbness isn't an inability to feel—it's the result of learning how to turn down painful emotions so effectively that you accidentally turn down the good ones too.In this video, I break down three less-obvious ways we can block our own emotions: constantly expecting the worst, living in a chronic fight-or-flight state, and carrying unresolved grief or trauma. These strategies may have helped you survive something once, but they can eventually leave your entire emotional range feeling smaller.If you've built a life you think you should be able to enjoy but can't seem to actually feel it, the answer may not be figuring out how to create happiness. It may be understanding what's preventing you from feeling what's already there. If my podcast has helped, my new book, The Light Between the Leaves , goes even deeper Next Steps: 📩 Get Practical tools for navigating life…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Eilers

Topics covered

• emotional numbness
• mental health
• depression
• anxiety
• trauma
• emotional range

Keywords

• emotional numbness
• chronic fight-or-flight
• unresolved grief
• mental health
• depression
• anxiety
• emotional range

Sponsors

Pulsetto

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Pulsetto FIT

Books & works: The Light Between the Leaves

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