Episode Details

Which two words are quietly framing your whole life wrong? Good and bad. I swapped them for healthy and unhealthy, and it took the harshness off everything, anger included.

Nothing is simply good or bad. Everything has a healthier and an unhealthier version, and you usually have to go through the unhealthy one to reach the other. A teenager needs a bit of narcissism. Anger is a perfect emotion, and there are children starving, so I should be angry. The only question is which version I am running. I recorded this after a fortnight off, because I had been genuinely poorly.

One thing to try: Take one thing you do and ask which version you are running. Not good or bad. Healthy or unhealthy.

In this episode

• (0:08) The two words I have been dropping out of my vocabulary
• (2:48) Two weeks off, and being more unwell than I let on
• (3:53) Working through what we call healthy and unhealthy
• (7:48) Ego, and admitting I have one
• (9:01) Why every teenager should be a little narcissistic
• (11:29) Kicking the washing line, and the unhealthy version of anger
• (12:44) The unhealthy version of empathy, and what comes after it
• (15:01) Taking the prickliness off, and still being angry about the right things

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