The way we process emotions and regulate our mood is a series of patterns that starts when we’re young. Dr Alex George’s new book Happy Habits: your guide to feeling happy, calm and confident was written for children to help them master tools to help with this, but the advice inside is relevant for all ages.
Speaking on the Well Enough podcast, George told host Emilie Lavinia: “Every emotional state has its role, and if you think about someone sat in a control room with lots of levers [for] happiness, anger, sadness, guilt, shame, all these different things, those levers all have a job and they all need to work at the right time. But what we don't want is being stuck on sad all the time. We don't want to be stuck on happy all the time either.
