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Overcoming Stress in America With Chris Libby
Live Happy Now
English - May 21, 2019 13:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 503 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement happiness mindfulness science happier health livehappy livehappynow positive psychology wellbeing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Each year, Gallup releases its Global Emotions Report, which measures life’s intangibles: feelings and emotions. Using its Positive Experience Index, Gallup measures our enjoyment of life and looks at who’s doing well … and who’s not. This year’s report showed that, even as our economy improved, Americans found themselves being more stressed, worried and angry in 2018. Live Happy editor Chris Libby and Live Happy Now host Paula Felps sat down to talk about what’s driving our negative emotions and what we can do about it.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why self-care is so important in combating negative emotions How to turn off negativity (and the evening news) Practices for building positive emotion