Psychologist: The blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions

Psychologist: The blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions View our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed Psychologist: The blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions Lisa Damour breaks down why chasing a permanent state of calm backfires, why naming an emotion can shrink it, and why "feeling bad" can sometimes be the clearest sign of mental health rather than its absence. Lisa Damour is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers, which have been translated into twenty-three languages. Her[…] Psychologist: The blueprint for developing a healthy relationship with your emotions Dr.

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Clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour argues that most of us have the wrong relationship with discomfort entirely, treating stress like a malfunction instead of what it actually is: a signal that we're growing. I'm a clinical psychologist.

I'm an author and I'm the co-host of Ask Lisa, the psychology of raising tween and teens podcast. Today on Big Think, we're going to talk about a few different things. First, we're going to talk about why stress is actually a good thing.

Then we're going to talk about why uncomfortable emotions are not to be chased away. And then we're going to talk about what it means to be a growing person. That especially vivid time of life that is adolescence.

What it means to have one. What it means to have been one. So stress is a big topic these days and for good reason.