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Resilience Over Happiness

Focusing solely on making kids happy can inadvertently instill fear and avoidance of difficult emotions, leading to anxiety in adulthood. When parents express fear about their child’s struggles, it teaches kids to run away from their feelings instead of developing resilience. Embracing a wide range of emotions is essential for fostering emotional strength and tolerance in children.

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- How do negative experiences, such as being told at a young age or into adulthood how we should feel (e.g., feeling ashamed or not being allowed to feel sad), get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions? This was discussed in episode #614: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, the clip Embracing Pain's Gift from the episode Dr. Marc Brackett: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence, and the clip Permission to Feel.