EP 101: Disappointment
Inspiration from the Couch
English - March 14, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement psychology moms mental health psychologists parenting women health wellness conversation authenticity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In today’s episode, we focus on disappointment, a feeling most of us don’t name or talk about enough. We explore what makes disappointment a harder emotion to acknowledge, highlighting the tendency to quickly detour to anger, judgment, shame, or embarrassment. We discuss our own experiences with disappointment. We talk about how disappointment often presents, including the thoughts, feelings, and body sensations that tend to accompany it. We notice that there’s power in being able to name our disappointment – the trick is in letting disappointment coexist with other, often contradictory, emotions. We explore the relationship between disappointment and our expectations (there’s a strong relationship between these two!), and we talk more specifically about how disappointment shows up in parenting. Lastly we discuss both unhelpful (maladaptive) and helpful (more effective) ways to cope with disappointment.