Five Podcasts to Help You Understand and Boost Your Emotional Health
What is emotional health, why it is important, and how can you prioritize it? These five podcasts will help you understand.
Emotional health is one of the cornerstones of well-being. It can help you manage stress, feel good, and lead a more fulfilling lifestyle. However, it’s often something which is overlooked, as the focus on other areas of mental health seem to push this important topic to the side.
Emotional health is one part of mental health and is described as a person’s awareness of (and ability to cope with) emotions that are both positive and negative. It is how we acknowledge our own emotions, as well as those of others.
Of course, you can still have days when you feel sad, or stressed, but it will help you to recognize these emotions and deal with them in a way that does not create long term damage.
So how can you tell if your emotional health is out of balance? There are some simple questions that you can ask yourself:
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- Are your energy levels regularly low?
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- Are you struggling with motivation at home or at work?
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- Are you regularly getting stressed with loved ones?
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- Are you eating too much (or too little) and reaching for alcohol to reduce stress?
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- Do you have high blood pressure?
If the answer to these questions is yes, then addressing these issues head on will help to get you back on track.
Want to learn more? These five podcasts will explain what emotional health is, why it is important and how you can learn to prioritize it.
1. Emotional Health Podcast
Just as the name suggests, this podcast series goes straight to the heart of why emotional health is important. Host Lucy Dracott will help you on your way, with educational material, interviews and her own real-life experiences. Lucy is very easy to relate to and her gentle accent makes listening to this podcast a relaxing experience in itself.
Best emotional health podcast if… you aren’t sure where to start.
Episode to check out: ‘How to start strengthening your Emotional Health’
2. TED: How to Be a Better Human
This is not your standard self-improvement podcast. Comedian and television writer Chris Duffy has made the bold claim that he can make you a better human… with the help of past TED speakers and other special guests. In the episode ‘How to find the emotional support you need right now’, Chris chats with psychologist Guy Winch who believes we need to practice emotional hygiene with the same diligence with which we practice personal and dental hygiene.
Best emotional health podcast if… you want a light-hearted dose of wisdom.
3. 7 Good Minutes
Host Clyde Lee Dennis delivers a micro-dose of self-improvement and positivity every day, seven days a week. Launched at the start of 2021, this podcast certainly has a deep back catalogue of wisdom for you to explore. These snackable episodes include guidance on how to cope with stress, how positivity can help you feel good, and the importance of maintaining your emotional health.
Best emotional health podcast if… you are pushed for time.
Episode to check out: ‘Looking after your own emotional health’
4. Feel Better. Live More.
Medical doctor Chatterjee Rangan is the British podcaster offering you guidance on how to ‘Feel Better and Live More.‘ He is joined by an array of medical and scientific experts to discuss all aspects of mental health.
In the episode ‘why emotions matter more than you think’, his guest is Professor Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who has dedicated his life to studying and teaching on the topic of mental health. In more than 20 years of research, Marc has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance.
Best emotional health podcast if… you want the medical professional’s opinion.
5. Happy Place with Ferne Cotton
Veteran broadcaster-turned-podcaster Ferne Cotton is helping people on their own journey to better their emotional health with her ‘Happy Place’ podcast (as well as books on a similar theme). She talks to an all-star list of incredible people about life, love, loss, and everything in between. She manages to get some amazing emotional stories in order to reveal what happiness means to these a-list guests.
Whilst she is not a medical expert, this podcast helps reveal what is at the heart of emotional health: Identifying and dealing with different emotions on an individual level.
Best emotional health podcast if… you want to learn from other people’s experiences.
Episode to check out: Ferne talks with former footballer and TV pundit ‘Ian Wright’
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