In this episode of The Optimized Mom Podcast, I chat about my own tendency to:

• try to suppress my feelings (especially any "negative" ones)
• to apologize for showing emotion around others
• to ruminate on certain emotion-provoking situations (which makes feelings last longer than they need to)
• to try to squash emotional outbursts in my kids

I'll discuss some strategies I'm using to try to handle my emotions (and those of my kids) a little more effectively.

If you'd like to read a transcript of this podcast, click here.

Click here to see Brené Brown's list of 87 Emotions.