How to Comfort Someone When They're Feeling Sad

 Learn why it's important to just to "reach out and touch somebody's hand," and tips to make this world a better place, because you can!

Meh is a Yiddish word that has been adopted into English that expresses apathy or indifference. In the first half Charlie shares a resource to take your own emotional temperature along with changes to consider to manage your own Meh. But what can we do to have a positive effect on other people’s emotions when they are sad? There is an increasing body of evidence that supports the ‘social regulation of emotion’, which is how people help adjust each other’s emotions, meaning that our social community can impact our Meh.

In this Episode:

• 04:32 – How Are You, Really? New York Time’s self-guided check-in
• 06:32 – Recipe of the Week: Browned butter chocolate chip cookies
• 08:14 – How to Help Someone Who is Sad
• 21:43 – “If” – Poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 24:04 – Outro

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