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Making Peace With Hard Emotions

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October 27, 2025

You can’t out-think your emotions — but you can change your relationship with them. In this episode, I share a simple exercise that helps you stop fighting uncomfortable feelings and start making space for them instead. Pursuing a meaningful life doesn’t mean you’ll feel good all the time, it means learning to coexist with discomfort without letting it control you. This episode will show you how calm starts not by pushing feelings away, but by welcoming them home.

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October 27, 2025

Are your emotions trying to help you — or just hijacking your day? In this episode, we break down a clear, science-backed way to know when to trust your emotions and when to let them pass like weather.

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October 6, 2025

We’ve all had feelings we wish we could erase. The harder we try to push these emotions away, the stronger they often come back. In this episode, I share two powerful concepts that can shift the way you relate to unwanted emotions. Instead of resisting them, you’ll learn how to recognize the hidden ways your feelings are trying

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August 18, 2025

Anxiety tricks us into believing more thinking equals more control—but often, it just keeps us stuck. In this conversation, I talk with coach Jaime about how to reframe problems, why insights often show up when you stop overthinking, and how simple practices can help you access clarity.

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July 21, 2025

When anxiety won’t budge, it might be time to listen instead of fight. In this episode, we unpack a tool called anxiety curiosity—a method that works when nothing else does. Turns out, your anxiety might be running on outdated software. I’ll walk you through a real example from my own experience with performance anxiety—and how digging into the mental archive changed everything

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June 30, 2025

You’ve tried breathing. You’ve tried journaling. But your body is still in full-on panic mode. This episode is for the moments when anxiety feels physical, overwhelming, and out of control. I’ll teach you a powerful strategy rooted in psychology and personal experience. Learn how to stop fueling the anxiety spiral and how to apply this skill in the middle of a sleepless night or a high-stakes performance.

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May 5, 2025

Adult kids = adult worries. If you’ve been stuck in an anxiety loop, today’s episode is your lifeline. What You'll Learn: • Why parenting adult children can trigger more anxiety than other stages • Four mindset shifts to focus on when worry strikes • A simple writing exercise to reframe parental anxiety • How to trust your children’s j

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April 7, 2025

Jealousy is often just fear in disguise. It’s a prickly emotion that shows up in all kinds of relationships—between siblings, friends, romantic partners, and even with our own kids. And if we don’t know how to work with it, it can hijack our peace, strain our relationships, and leave us stewing in shame.

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February 24, 2025

Join Dr. Twitchell to learn about the importance of increasing distress tolerance for managing anxiety and negative emotions. This episode examines how resisting anxiety amplifies it and explores methods to accept negative emotions like anger, sadness, and fear by viewing them as temporary and necessary aspects of life. Dr. Twitchell shares personal anecdotes, discusses adaptive functions of em

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January 20, 2025

This episode explains how to observe rather than be overwhelmed by your feelings. It also highlights the power of speaking to yourself in the third person to turn down emotional intensity, manage anxiety and improve performance under stress. Practical exercises for implementing these techniques are provided to help listeners climb out of the emotional mud puddle and achieve better emotional regulation and clar

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December 2, 2024

In this episode, the focus is on understanding and managing body image anxiety. The discussion delves into common misconceptions and ineffective methods for addressing body anxiety, such as cosmetic surgery and weight loss. The episode emphasizes the importance of changing our mental relationship with body image rather than altering physical appearance. Dr. Twitchell shares personal experiences and effective strategies, including mindfulness, r

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