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Most anger isn’t about the thing. It’s about what the thing means: “Someone just messed with my control.” When your expectations get violated... plans change,d a process breaks, a person does something “unreasonable”. Your nervous system reads it like a little mugging. And then y ...  Show more

Turns out you don't learn faster when you're stressed, you learn faster when you're happy! So let's talk about treating your brain like a friend, not a factory worker. Muscles respond to stress with pretty linear upgrades; brains don’t. Brains upgrade through meaning, novelty, an ...  Show more

Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, host of ‘The Melissa Ambrosini Show' podcast, a motivational speaker, an entrepreneur and self-love teacher.We talk about:-What is the ‘mean girl’? How can we start to master her?-What does it mean to ‘open ...  Show more

This week, Valeria is joined by Melissa Wood-Tepperberg Melissa Wood-Tepperberg! Melissa is founder of MWH and host of the Move With Heart Podcast. She is a motivational speaker, meditation teacher, certified yoga and pilates instructor, certified health coach, and beloved by the ...  Show more

For the Happier Podcast Book Club, we talk to Duke Divinity School professor Kate Bowler about her moving, funny, thought-provoking new memoir, “No Cure for Being Human”Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.comGet in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRub ...  Show more

Dani Shapiro is a New York Times bestselling author and gifted examiner of life, especially her own. Her latest book, Inheritance, ( https://amzn.to/2WOiVT6) drops you into a surprise revelation abo ...