How to Regulate Your Emotions and Mental Chatter When Bad Things Happen | Maya Shankar

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody. Okay, here's the truth. We don't like this.

But we know it's true. Bad shit is going to happen to you, and it's going to happen to the people around you. It's happened to you in the past, and you know it's going to happen again. So the question is, how do you want to handle it? Today we've got a survival guide for navigating adversity.

And just to say, if you're not in the middle of adversity right now, this episode also includes an enormous amount of practical tips for catastrophic thinking and worrying, which many of us do about potential future bad events. And as many of you know, this type of catastrophizing is a salient feature of my own inner life with many, many deleterious effects. My guest is Maya Schonker. She's a cognitive scientist and creator of a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans.

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