Stories of Emotional GranularitY

A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience

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Guilt and Shame

When what we do and even who we are feels wrong, we have entered the territory of guilt and shame. How are these emotions distinct from each other?

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Happiness

Perhaps happiness is a feeling that just happens to happen, whether we deserve it or not.

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Climate Grief

Climate grief is how we feel when our living planet deteriorating, the biosphere crumbling toward the ultimate death.

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Surrender

Surrender is the emotion of letting go. In the feeling of surrender we abandon strategic plans for controlling the future and allow for something else to take charge.