Do you ever feel stuck in a negative mood or wonder why you cannot just snap out of it? You are not alone. Negative emotions are part of being human, but that does not mean you have to stay stuck. In this week’s episode of Ask Dr. Jodi, we discuss how to feel better instantly. Whether you are feeling sad, anxious, tired, or just off, I share practical strategies to help you shift your energy, reconnect with yourself, and move from powerlessness to empowerment.
What to Do When You’re Sad: Practical Ways to Shift Your Mood
Have you ever wondered why some days you just feel off, even when nothing seems wrong? Maybe you wake up feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or simply low on energy. You are not alone. In a world that expects constant happiness, it is easy to judge yourself for having negative emotions. The truth is, feeling down is a normal part of being human. What matters is how you respond when those feelings show up.
This week, I want to share practical, compassionate strategies you can use to feel better instantly. These are not just quick fixes, but tools that help you reconnect with yourself, shift your energy, and move from feeling powerless to empowered.
You'll learn
This episode is full of practical tips to help you move from feeling powerless to empowered, even if it is just in your own little corner of the world.
Resources mentioned in this episode
Takeaways from the episode
✔ Self-compassion is the first step
Give yourself permission to feel what you feel. Judging yourself only makes things harder. Compassion is the key to moving forward.
✔ Small actions shift energy
Whether it is making something creative, cleaning a counter, or taking a walk, small steps can create big changes in how you feel.
✔ Rest is productive
Listen to your body. Sometimes you need to rest, and that is okay. Make your rest intentional so it truly recharges you.
✔ Connection and creativity matter
Reach out to someone, start a project, or simply get outside. Connection and creativity are powerful antidotes to negative feelings.
✔ Empowerment begins with you
You may not be able to change everything, but you can always take one small step to shift your energy and reclaim your power.
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[00:00:00] Dr. Jodi Aman: Welcome to ask Dr. Jodi with me, Jodi and Lily. H We are, today we're talking about how to feel better instantly, how to feel better instantly, because there's so many emotions that we feel every day in. People ask me all the time, like. How do I deal with this? What do I do with this? What do I, how do I do it?
[00:00:24] Dr. Jodi Aman: Because really we think if we have any negative emotions that we must be doing something wrong. [00:00:30] This is the culture that we live in. We think if we feel a regular human response to a situation that we're doing something wrong, if it's negative. I don't know. I think we think that we are supposed to feel good and happy all the time and not ever we're like too evolved to ever feel sad or upset or worried, or, which are normal human responses to our world.
[00:00:53] Dr. Jodi Aman: And we were having a conversation, Last week, and we were talking about those memes that are how to feel better in [00:01:00] instantly. And it lists all these negative feelings that people have and that it has these little tips of what you can do to respond or to shift your energy.
[00:01:10] Dr. Jodi Aman: I guess it was my idea, but I thought that we could do a whole show on it.
[00:01:14] Lily: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I just remember like seeing, I was cleaning out my camera roll and there was a thing from like middle school that was like, if you're, I don't know, what was the one that, it was like, if you feel like the world, if you [00:01:30] feel like
[00:01:32] Dr. Jodi Aman: I should have looked at this before,
[00:01:34] Lily: I was like, if you feel like the world hates you.
[00:01:36] Lily: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Eat something. And then it was like, if you feel like, if you feel like you hate yourself, take a shower. And I was like, that always works. Like I, I think we were driving home from school and I was like, that always works if I like, sometimes I just feel gross. Obviously shower will help with that, but like mentally too.
[00:01:57] Lily: And then I'll be like outta the shower, be like, [00:02:00] Ooh yeah, it feels good.
[00:02:01] Dr. Jodi Aman: Feel clean. You feel different. And really
[00:02:03] Lily: that
[00:02:03] Dr. Jodi Aman: shifts energy.
[00:02:04] Lily: Yeah. So then we were like, oh, what else would work.
[00:02:08] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah so we kinda made a list of things that when you feel negative, obviously there's a lot of things you could do when you're feeling any feelings.
[00:02:17] Dr. Jodi Aman: The first thing I really want you to do before you do any of these things is have compassion for yourself. Because if you don't have compassion for yourself and you're judging yourself for having the negative feelings, you are gonna get [00:02:30] lost in deeper into the negative feelings. But if you have compassion for yourself, 'cause you're like, yes, I get it, that just happened to me.
[00:02:37] Dr. Jodi Aman: Of course I feel that way. And sometimes you're like I don't even know why I feel so bad. Or maybe I'm overreacting, or I, you feel funky when nothing's happened. That's normal too, because sometimes it just is like you're bored or you are hungry or you're tired, or you're feeling a little burnout and you feel negative, but there's no obvious [00:03:00] trigger.
[00:03:00] Dr. Jodi Aman: It's an overall Kind of overwhelmed with life kind of thing. And we judge ourself really harshly for that. Instead of having compassion, even if there's not a known trigger, it's just like an overall stress. Sometimes I don't even know what stresses me out, but when I really sit and think about it, I find that there is a trigger.
[00:03:20] Lily: Yeah, and then it always. It always like immediately makes me feel better when I come up with a trigger as if I need like an excuse. Yeah. Like sometimes I'm like, oh, why am I [00:03:30] so angry? Like why am I upset? And then I'm like, oh, it's probably this. And I'm like, oh, I feel better. But. I feel like, I think that's pretty, it should be okay to just be upset sometimes.
[00:03:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yes. What happens is because I see this a lot with people is when they're upset and they don't know why they feel so powerless. 'cause it feels really outta control not to know why.
[00:03:49] Lily: Yeah, that's fine.
[00:03:50] Dr. Jodi Aman: And so it adds to the feeling, it adds to our self-judgment, but it also adds to the worry and anxiety because it's like, why and what's wrong with me?
[00:03:58] Dr. Jodi Aman: Something's wrong with me. [00:04:00] And so that is the reason why not knowing makes you feel worse often. And sometimes people come to me and they say, this is, I am sad out of the blue. And we very quickly find. A time that something happened that is leading to all that, or most likely they have five things going on in their life that are highly stressful.
[00:04:22] Dr. Jodi Aman: Any of those one things could cause it, and they're still saying, I don't know why I'm so sad. Or, I don't know why I'm so anxious. I'm like, [00:04:30] any one of those things could be the sole reason to have this much stress in your life. Your life. Yeah. That's the other thing.
[00:04:35] Lily: It feels oh, that wasn't that big of a deal.
[00:04:38] Lily: It's like such a big deal. Yeah.
[00:04:40] Dr. Jodi Aman: It's like your daughter's graduating from high school. That is a big deal. You're first born, it's a big deal. But we underestimate how heavy things are sometimes because we expect so much from ourself. I think our high expectations really make us feel horrible.
[00:04:58] Dr. Jodi Aman: And when you feel better instantly [00:05:00] when you lower those expectations.
[00:05:01] Lily: Also, sometimes I over like overreact at small things. So then I'm like I reacted really big to this, so I must have, if it really bothered me, like a real issue
[00:05:15] Lily: then I'm like, oh, if I wasn't, I didn't react. Like I didn't really cry about this, so it must not really bother me. It impacts, I feel like sometimes, like heavier issues impact me in different ways as opposed to some small inconvenience in the day will upset me more.
[00:05:29] Dr. Jodi Aman: Sometimes that [00:05:30] happens because it's like a straw that breaks the camel's back or sometimes that's the, that's it's, there's underlying stress that's going on and so this one thing causes you to fall apart.
[00:05:42] Dr. Jodi Aman: Or if you're hungry or you're really extra tired, or you're right, just have no bandwidth. That can make your response to some thing, some event, completely different than it would be at a different time. Yeah. And we have to have allowances for ourself for that. We have to have a lot of [00:06:00] compassion for ourself that sometimes we're gonna respond big and sometimes smell to big stuff because of what kind of emotional bandwidth we have in those moments.
[00:06:10] Dr. Jodi Aman: And that's totally human. Totally human. Yeah. But wow. Anyways, people don't give themselves those allowances, but if you do, you will feel better. Because if you give yourself compassion, it makes a huge difference.
[00:06:23] Dr. Jodi Aman: And how fast you feel better. So let's just go through a list of some of [00:06:30] the some of the negative things that we wrote down. Lily's got our notebook. Some of the negative things we're both list people. It's so funny,
[00:06:37] Lily: there's there's lists everywhere. When I'm home, I just just lists.
[00:06:42] Lily: I don't even, do you cross everything off? Yeah. I crossed some stuff off and then I'm just like, find it a week later and be like, oh, that was, I guess I did that one. Oh, yeah. But it like helps me to write it down, down and then I'll remember it.
[00:06:54] Dr. Jodi Aman: You're right. I find sometimes I go a couple days without writing a list and I'm just doing stuff.
[00:06:58] Lily: Yeah.
[00:06:59] Dr. Jodi Aman: And then [00:07:00] I find the list of a few days ago. Yeah. And some of this stuff is done and not crossed
[00:07:03] Lily: out. Honestly, if you're feeling overwhelmed, write a list that's number one on the list. It's not even written down. Wow. Is it on the list? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's, yeah.
[00:07:11] Dr. Jodi Aman: So if you're feeling overwhelmed, write everything down so it gets clear.
[00:07:15] Dr. Jodi Aman: It's probably less than you think when you're looking at the big picture stuff. It's really nice to write little steps for yourself. On what to do first, because it just seems a lot less overwhelming when you could, you don't have to do the whole thing. All you have to do is the steps that you [00:07:30] could do today.
[00:07:30] Lily: Do you ever write down stuff you've already done?
[00:07:32] Dr. Jodi Aman: Oh yes. A hundred percent guilty. Yeah, it feels so good to cross it out. Why not get that pleasure? I'll stuff up. It doesn't hurt
[00:07:40] Lily: anybody. Doesn't break stuff up into smaller things. It'll be like empty the dishwash. I'd be like, open the dishwasher.
[00:07:46] Lily: Done anyways.
[00:07:49] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. You know what? If it makes you feel good and doesn't hurt anybody, write it down and cross it. It back out. So what there's. [00:08:00] A million worse things could do. There are worse things you could do. There are worse things could do. Lemme tell you, not lets tell you that.
[00:08:09] Dr. Jodi Aman: All right? Okay. Okay. Okay. If you're slap, happy, no. Okay. So if you're sad, so if you're sad, I said make something because it shifts energy to get into creative energy. And it stimulates a lot of times sadness is really comes from isolation, [00:08:30] which we do when we're feeling anxious or sad. First thing we do is isolate ourself, and that just tumbles us into more sadness.
[00:08:36] Dr. Jodi Aman: So I guess number one is go be with somebody. Go hang out with people or call somebody when you're sad, but also. Make something like if there's nobody, say you're in the middle of the night or there's somewhere, there's no one to call or no one to be with in that moment, try to do something creative.
[00:08:53] Dr. Jodi Aman: That is a great way to shift energy.
[00:08:56] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah.
[00:08:56] Lily: Like a coloring book.
[00:08:57] Dr. Jodi Aman: It
[00:08:57] Lily: could be a coloring book. It could be any [00:09:00] craft, it could be what about a video? I feel like sometimes. I don't know what, sometimes I, if I'm crying, I'll take a video of myself crying and then I'll look on it and be like, I look silly.
[00:09:11] Dr. Jodi Aman: That's awesome. Great. Awesome.
[00:09:17] Dr. Jodi Aman: Moving on. Moving on. Okay. So angry. I'm just kidding. That's totally cool. Okay. Angry for angry, I said suggested exercise. This is a good one. Obviously [00:09:30] there's tons of things you could do when you're angry, but movement is a really good way to burn off some of that nervous energy or that, remember,
[00:09:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: Anger, frustration, thinking something's weird, being confused, anxious, nervous, all the same hormone, right? All of those things are stress and they're all the same hormone. That's adrenaline. You make meaning around it differently and how you feel, and you have different intensities of how much adrenaline's in your blood depending on what emotion and the [00:10:00]meaning that you're making, but they're all the same.
[00:10:04] Dr. Jodi Aman: So really any negative feeling any of these things will do, and it really, this list is about getting you in touch with your personal agency. So getting yourself in touch with what you can do, because when you feel really negative, you think of all the things that you can't do and all the things that you're powerless about.
[00:10:23] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. You could get really focused on that stuff. I was, but when you start to do something, anything at all, like the things you're [00:10:30] suggesting, it shifts.
[00:10:33] Lily: Yeah. But I was thinking like for the anger one like that motivates me, so maybe that's more spiteful. But if I'm angry at something, I'll be like, imagine myself like beating it.
[00:10:45] Lily: Or
[00:10:45] Dr. Jodi Aman: Oh yeah, when you're exercising, when you're running, you mean?
[00:10:47] Lily: Yeah. When I'm running, I'll and I've said this about music, I always use music to get into a head space. So if I'm like angry and then I have to go for a run or I want to, I'll be like, put on like motivational [00:11:00] music and be like, oh wow, I'll show them, or that thing, anyways.
[00:11:06] Dr. Jodi Aman: Anyways, yeah. Yeah, it's empowering, right? There's a switch in powerless energy to empowering energy and that's what we're getting at. Okay, so Lily made fun of me 'cause I wrote Tired and rest. But really we need permission to rest. It seems so obvious, but why do we need to tell you that if you're tired, rest please is because so many of us don't rest.
[00:11:29] Lily: [00:11:30] What does rest does that mean go to sleep?
[00:11:32] Dr. Jodi Aman: It could mean go to sleep. It could mean sit and read a book. It could mean sit down with your feet up or do a yoga pose, like a waterfall pose with your legs up. Yeah, it could be sit and talk to somebody in your family. Just hang out.
[00:11:45] Lily: Some people would say rest what about TikTok?
[00:11:48] Lily: Like rest. Like, how do you know what's constructive rest and
[00:11:53] Lily: I
[00:11:53] Dr. Jodi Aman: think if you plan it so if you're like, I'm gonna sit and squirrel right now. Oh yeah. On social media. 'cause I just wanna zone out a little [00:12:00] bit and I'm gonna do it. And if you limit it and you're like, I'm doing it just to rest or play a game on your phone or something like that.
[00:12:07] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. But if it's like a plan, it's I'm gonna do this to rest, then you actually get, sorry, you actually get something out of it. So you actually feel like you were productive. 'cause you planned it and then you get the benefits from it. But if you're like, I have to do something, but you get on and you start scrolling when you know you have to do something, it's like in the back of your [00:12:30]head, but you're scrolling.
[00:12:30] Dr. Jodi Aman: You feel terrible about yourself. That's not helpful. Yeah. So sometimes scrolling could be used to rest. Sometimes scrolling is. Delays something that you really wanna do and then you get mad at yourself or it makes you feel bad. As we get to later, when I was thinking about if you feel lazy, get off your screen.
[00:12:51] Dr. Jodi Aman: If you're feeling lazy, get off your screen and do something. What I like is sometimes you just need a little bit of a task and then you could see the [00:13:00] progress and that kicks you off. 'cause sometimes we're so unmotivated, we don't wanna do anything. But if we could get ourself to clean off a counter or some little space, clean it off and see the cleanness it, seeing that progress actually motivates us for the next small task and the next small task.
[00:13:19] Dr. Jodi Aman: So if you're feeling lazy, get up your screen, do something, clean, a counter off. That's, not that if it's a major job, but if it's like a little job and you clean it [00:13:30] off and stay a clean man or make your bed, if you make your bed and you see your bed made, it just shifts the energy and gives you a little bit for the next little thing.
[00:13:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: Then you could pick up your clothes or something like that, and then it gives you energy for the next thing and the next time.
[00:13:43] Lily: Yeah.
[00:13:43] Lily: What if it
[00:13:44] Lily: doesn't? What if you get up and you're like, I just gotta make my bed? And then you make your bed and you're like, I just wanna sit back down on it,
[00:13:53] Dr. Jodi Aman: plop right back down on it.
[00:13:55] Dr. Jodi Aman: I'm sure it happens. And sometimes you have to adjust your expectations depending [00:14:00] on where you're at. Maybe you've been overworking for a really long time and you do need a rest day. You need, your body needs to rest for whole day and that rest is
[00:14:07] Lily: tired. And then you need to rest. Yes. Good one.
[00:14:10] Dr. Jodi Aman: Sometimes you do need to rest and you need to listen to your body and sometimes.
[00:14:16] Dr. Jodi Aman: You're the sluggishness is like inertia. So an object of in rest stays in. Rest. An object in motion stays in motion. Sometimes when someone's isolated and they haven't, don't have motivation to do stuff, it's [00:14:30] hard to do stuff so I have, you are all in different. Different areas of where you're at.
[00:14:37] Dr. Jodi Aman: So some of you might be in that inertia of rest and you need to get going. You need to move, and some of you are moving way too much and you need to be able to rest. So this is not a universal advice that you have to do one or the other. You have to look at where you're at. And then of course there's everywhere in the middle.
[00:14:57] Dr. Jodi Aman: If you are that object at [00:15:00] rest and it's really hard to get moving, do one small task. Do one small task. And if that doesn't get you, and it's not, if you make your bed, you're not gonna be like a different person. Now, if you make your bed, you might have enough energy to maybe pick up your floor a little bit, and then that feels good.
[00:15:18] Dr. Jodi Aman: And so you go outside and you're like, I'm gonna get in the car and go somewhere. I'll just go and get a coffee or something just to get out of the house. Like you have to get moving. And it's hard because [00:15:30] that inertia is like this, like molasses, like the whole air is molasses and you're trying to get started and it gets easier and it gets thinner and thinner.
[00:15:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: But those first tasks are really hard. It's make the bed clean up a little bit, take a shower, put clothes on. It does shift energy. And it might just be a little bit, and that might be all you could do, but it could be huge for you. I don't know. But probably most of the people are watching this are doing things and [00:16:00] yeah.
[00:16:00] Dr. Jodi Aman: And that will be enough to get you going a little bit. So if you are anxious, call a friend, take a shower like Lily said. Breathe, do some deep breathing.
[00:16:11] Dr. Jodi Aman: That helps. Those things will help you feel better instantly if you stop and breathe because you're telling your brain that you're safe.
[00:16:20] Dr. Jodi Aman: If you were actually in danger, if you needed that adrenaline to save your own life or fight off a foe or something like that, you wouldn't be breathing deeply. So [00:16:30] you're actually telling your brain that you're okay and your nervous system is calming down if you breathe deeply. So it's really physiologically important too.
[00:16:38] Dr. Jodi Aman: And also go for a walk. You could say go for a walk for anything negative. Yeah. If you have to make a decision, go for a walk. If you are mad at people, go for a walk. If you are angry, go for a walk. If you are tired, go for, go for a walk. It really does switch your energy. It really does.
[00:16:55] Dr. Jodi Aman: The research shows that walking [00:17:00] shifts. Overall, it shifts your energy. So it's better equal in some ways, the antidepressive and better. I have some walking videos on that, and I'll put the links to them under this. But there, the research shows that walking is important for longevity, for happiness for mental health, for physical fitness.
[00:17:24] Dr. Jodi Aman: We are made to walk. Humans are made to walk long distances, [00:17:30]so
[00:17:31] Lily: Really?
[00:17:32] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. How long? The hunter gatherers. So we walked, yeah. Walked. Walked and walked. Okay. If you feel indecisive, take a walk. No, I put clean your room. They're all the same like you. Like I said, because any negative feeling.
[00:17:50] Dr. Jodi Aman: Needs a shift in energy. And when you clean something it's, we always have access to something to clean. Unless you're an over cleaner, then everything's already clean. [00:18:00]Then go out for a walk or go do something else or make something. See all of these things. Get your problem solving brain to start working.
[00:18:09] Dr. Jodi Aman: And our brain has evolved for millions of years to solve problems. And so if we're not doing that, it'll make up problems to solve. Thus the negativity. The negativity is of course a response to situations and also a response to the context of our mind. So the context of our [00:18:30]world, we respond sometimes with negative things.
[00:18:32] Dr. Jodi Aman: If bad things happen to us, that's normal and irregular human response. And right now, our anxiety, our depression, this is a regular human response to our modern world, but also we create this negative thing in our head with those negative. Thoughts. And they multiply and so we wanna get ourselves outta there.
[00:18:54] Dr. Jodi Aman: Instead of trying to solve these unsolvable problems, we wanna give it something to do. So be [00:19:00] creative, go do something, take action, clean. Sing, write a song clean a counter off. Call a friend, be with somebody. Help them with their problems. Help your friend with their problems. That is really a helpful way to make ourselves feel better instantly.
[00:19:19] Dr. Jodi Aman: What do you think? What do we miss? I
[00:19:21] Lily: think that we, this list was like less satisfying because the solutions can go for like any of them than [00:19:30] that one picture on my camera roll. That was like, If you're angry at the world, I love that thing so much. I know eat or something, if you're angry at the world, eat and then you'll feel better.
[00:19:41] Lily: But it is nice to have other options because sometimes things you, when you said the, I forgot, eat something. When you said, I know, but when you said the ooc or would you say OCD? Or if you're like an over cleaner, then everything's clean. That kind of opened my eyes. I was like, oh, this list is just like anything works, but.[00:20:00]
[00:20:00] Lily: But if something doesn't work for you or if something else is gonna trigger you, then it is good to have other options and to know that anything can work for anything.
[00:20:10] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. To get you out. Really, it's about feeling powerless and switching that powerlessness to feeling empowered.
[00:20:16] Lily: Yeah.
[00:20:16] Dr. Jodi Aman: By doing something in your own context that makes you feel good.
[00:20:21] Dr. Jodi Aman: So if you're feeling insecure, do something creative. Make something, do something hard, make something hard. Learn something [00:20:30] new. Clean something out, organize your closet. Sometimes those are little things that you could go do to get yourself started.
[00:20:35] Lily: You can delete pictures in your phone.
[00:20:38] Lily: You could delete like 10 pictures a day. And then if you delete 10, you're gonna see more and you're gonna be like, I don't need this picture. I don't need this.
[00:20:47] Dr. Jodi Aman: Decluttering. Decluttering is so good for the mind. It's so good for the mind. So if it's, even if it's digital decluttering or it's physical decluttering, decluttering hands [00:21:00] down is one of the best things to do to calm a stressful body mind.
[00:21:06] Dr. Jodi Aman: And it, that sounds a little bit like bypassing. 'cause the context of our world is so bad and so people live in a context that's so unjust and horrible. And of course decluttering is not gonna change those things. But for, it's like a good first step for many people, even though you're in these contexts sometimes, or have been in the past and maybe not anymore or whatever there's obviously structural [00:21:30] injustice and those things going on, but we need our emotional bandwidth.
[00:21:35] Dr. Jodi Aman: To stay connected to our empowerment so we could fight those things, so we could do something about them. So people, even people who have privilege, need to strengthen their bandwidth so that they could have the bandwidth to be like, we need to do something about this. This is not okay. If that makes sense.
[00:21:53] Lily: Yeah. Yeah. A lot of, yeah. These aren't to solve every problem, it's just to shift energy so that you [00:22:00] can solve your problems.
[00:22:01] Dr. Jodi Aman: Yeah. Or have the strength to handle them or make connections that we need to get through this crazy life. , Make connections with people because we're not supposed to be.
[00:22:12] Dr. Jodi Aman: Wow. This has been great. Okay, so if you're bored, start a project. If you're insecure, turn off your screen. We got them. We got them. They're really, I love that.
[00:22:23] Dr. Jodi Aman: E if you're, if you hate the worldy, I think that's. I think you love that so much because the wording of it is so good. It's not if you're sad, [00:22:30] it's so dumb. It's like you hate everybody in your life. Eat something. It does make sense because,
[00:22:35] Lily: I don't know, it's just yeah, when we're
[00:22:36] Dr. Jodi Aman: hangry, we do not let people, it's so good.
[00:22:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: It's so good. You have to find that. I'm gonna, if she finds it, I'll put it under this video too.
[00:22:45] Lily: I think I deleted it. I can just find it. Really, I was decluttering.
[00:22:52] Dr. Jodi Aman: So here we go. This is how you feel. Better. Instantly you shift your energy for powerlessness to [00:23:00] empowerment, and it might be just empowerment in your own little corner of the world and your own little room, or your own little house, or your own little place of work or something.
[00:23:10] Dr. Jodi Aman: But that empowerment grows. It grows connections, and in connections you become more empowered. Yeah. And you fight injustices and you are kind to people and you bring everyone together and in. And that's what we have to do. We don't wanna get lost in some of our stuff because then [00:23:30] we're more lonely, we feel worse, we feel terrified and bad about the world.
[00:23:35] Dr. Jodi Aman: And that's not how we're supposed to live. We're supposed to live happy and joyous and connected, but of course, bad things do happen. But when we're connected, we could face them so much easier.
[00:23:47] Lily: Yeah.
[00:23:50] Dr. Jodi Aman: All right. Thank you so much for tuning in. We're so glad that you're here. And I yeah. Anything else to say here before we go? [00:24:00]
[00:24:00] Lily: Have fun shifting your energy. I hope you have a new project. On the horizon, like a simple project, like a color, get a project coloring book, or a paint by number.
[00:24:12] Dr. Jodi Aman: Hands down, having some kind of project, and if you are anxious, the more engaging the project is or the more complex the project is, the better that you'll feel. The better that it'll work on shifting you from an anxious or sad [00:24:30] state or lonely and isolated out into some kind of enjoyment or connection.
[00:24:39] Dr. Jodi Aman: So that's gonna be really important. All right everybody, we'll see you next week, right here at live at 8:00 PM we're gonna take the summer off July and August, but we'll be here in June. And if you wanna know a list of our topics, come on over to https://jodiaman.com/live You could sign up to be coached live, or you [00:25:00] could just get updates on the topic of the show.
[00:25:02] Dr. Jodi Aman: Be an insider and. We will see you next Monday at eight.