Be grateful, it could be worse

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 experiencesEmotional bypassingBoundariesYou are allowed to complain People dont need fixingHere are the highlights of this episode:0:55 The words grateful and gratitude 2:43 You can’t complain4:16 It can invalidate emotional experiences 5:01 It stops you to think about what’s underneath 5:59 Emotional bypassing9:16 Complaining as a way of processing what needs changing10:39 Always being grateful and not complaining can also foster isolation 11:28 Negating the importance of the situation13:37 Sometimes people just need to be heard