If you've ever spent any time diving deep into emotions, you may have come across the term: core emotions.
Core emotions are often thought about as the bread and butter of our emotional landscape—our anger, sadness, disgust—and they're often contrasted against what can be called inhibitory emotions like anxiety, shame, or guilt.
If this way of thinking about emotions is totally new to you, no worries—because in today’s episode, we’re going to break down the difference between these categories and play around with the question:
What makes a core emotion ‘core?’ Why are they thought of as different than, let’s say, shame? And does that change across cultures?
I’m joined by the one, the only, Dr. Anees Benferhat—known as just Anees to me. He’s a healing-centered psychiatrist and psychotherapist here in New York City, and happens to be my husband, partner, love of my life, and rock.
We go deep on exploring the differences between these categories of emotions—and have fun doing it too.
Having maps like this to understand our inner worlds is such a gift that the times we live in offer us. And they’re tools we can use to learn how to navigate all the gut-wrenching, confusing, heinousness of the times that we live in.
So my hope is that you walk away with more grounded frameworks and tools to think about and explore your inner world—both for your own sanity, and mental and spiritual health, as well as for the unique role that you're meant to play in the world right now.
Let me know what you think.
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