Stories of Emotional GranularitY

A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience

Jonathan Cook 12/21/23 Jonathan Cook 12/21/23

Anxiety

Anxiety is as true as happiness. Anxiety is inescapable. Anxiety does not go away if we stop talking about it. What’s more, in our time, anxiety is growing. It is spreading like the darkness of winter.

Jonathan Cook 8/29/23 Jonathan Cook 8/29/23

Burnout

To meaningfully discuss the feeling of being burned out, it is necessary for us to acknowledge that often, our lives aren’t as lovely and under control as we often like to pretend. Burnout happens when we can no longer maintain the façade of life as it’s supposed to be, and the image we project for others to see falters.

Jonathan Cook 8/5/23 Jonathan Cook 8/5/23

Arrived

The feeling that one has arrived is an emotion that’s situated within the narrative arc of a journey. First, there was a departure. Then, there was travel, a passage away from the point of departure. Arrival is the emotion that comes when it seems that this journey has come to its completion.

Jonathan Cook 7/27/23 Jonathan Cook 7/27/23

Arbejdsglaede

There’s no formula for arbejdsglaede that’s going to work for everyone, because different people have different kinds of work that requires different skills and different forms of dedication.

Jonathan Cook 7/16/23 Jonathan Cook 7/16/23

Trust

Trust is the emotion of enduring truth. This episode of Stories of Emotional Granularity features insights into trust from Betti Rooted Lionheart, Kristen Donnelly, Robin Hafitz, Shannon Haskins, and Marie Thouin.