Episode 4: Emotions are our navigation system

In our fourth episode, we are discussing the way in which our emotions actually form an internal guidance or navigation system that Les Greenberg likens to our own GPS. Les and Michele discuss the different "action tendencies" of different emotions and how to tell which ones you should follow and which are giving you bad guidance, like using an old map with roads that are no longer there. Along the way, the talk about the difference between adaptive and maladaptive emotions, as well as core emotions and secondary emotions. Les ends the episode with an exercise to help viewers have an experience of what it is like to follow your own internal emotional guidance. In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. Like and subscribe ⁨@EmotionUsersGuide⁩. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'[email protected] more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: [email protected]