Episode 6: Listen to your gut

“There literally is a second brain in the gut,” says Dr. LeslieGreenberg in the sixth episode of Your Emotions: A User’s Guide. “Your gut produces almost 90% of the neurochemicals dopamine and serotonin…so gut feelings are literally based in our gastrointestinal system.”

Les and Michele suggest that you “Listen to your gut,” the emotion principle behind this episode. Les discusses the role of the this “gut brain” in decision making and the function of the rational brain vs. the feeling brain. Les also leads viewers and listeners through an exercise called “getting themessage” that is designed to help them listen to their gut and welcome its message.

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 theinside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck orinadvertently 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 byDr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves.

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