Stop Bottling Your Emotions Before It Costs You Years | Susan David

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1964DM You tell yourself at least I have a job. At least it's not worse. Susan David has a name for that move. Forced false positivity. A denial strategy wrapped in rainbows and sparkles and social media memes. It sounds harmless. What could be wrong with being grateful? Here's the cost. You stop feeling the thing that was trying to tell you something. You turn your back on yourself. And five years later you're in the same job, the same unhappiness, holding the same information you never used. Susan calls it hustling a war inside yourself. Fighting the emotion. Avoiding it. Trying to feel something else instead. The research is blunt about where that leads. Lower wellbeing. Higher anxiety, depression, burnout. And the part that stings most: it wrecks your relationships too, because people can feel when you're not being real. This one reframes gratitude, grief, and every emotion you've been told to swallow. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.