Fatigue is a term used to describe an overall feeling of tiredness or lack of energy. It isn't the same as simply feeling drowsy or sleepy. When you're fatigued, you have no motivation and no energy. Being sleepy may be a symptom of fatigue, but it's not the same thing. Covid fatigue implies that more and more people are fed up with the quarantine and breaking the rules.

Episode Resources
* Craft, David. Radical Acceptance And Self-Esteem: Embrace Your Gifts Of Imperfection, Overcome Your Confidence Gap And Build Self-Acceptance https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Acceptance-Self-Esteem-Imperfection-Self-Acceptance/dp/1724000853
* Pandemic fatigue? How adherence to covid-19 regulations has been misrepresented and why it matters https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n137.full
* Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study Using Penalized Logistic Regression - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.21.21252159v1
Episode Highlights
* Emotional labor of masking
* Acknowledging the long-term fatigue of Covid-19
* Radical Acceptance and how it helps with the fatigue of challenging circumstances
* Increased drug and alcohol use to numb the constant feeling
* What factors drive potential mental health issues

Original podcast theme music by Lance Keltner. https://www.youtube.com/user/lancekeltner This episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast was recorded and mixed at MSR Studios in Saint Paul, MN. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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Hungarian-American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, discovered the state of flow thanks to the technological innovation of pagers in the 1970. From Wikipedia - In an interview with Wired magazine, Csíkszentmihályi described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost."

Episode Resources
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi
The Experience Sampling Method - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9088-8_2
Ted Talk - Flow, the secret to happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_secret_to_happiness?language=en
Episode Highlights
What Flow feels like
Definition of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and how it was developed
How the ESM is different from a survey
Problems with the original Experience Sampling Method
How ESM has been adapted to use smartphones and emoji to measure emotional awareness

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The past year of social distancing and remote working has turned our ideas of what the workplace should be on its head. The opportunities for managers and co-workers to pause from the tasks of the work day and take a moment to connect are few and far between. Trying to gage how well an employee is dealing with stress at work and at home over Zoom and Slack are nearly impossible.

Tina and Michelle address the need for psychologically safe ways to ask for and get emotional feedback in the workplace. Inspired by the Net Promoter Score introduced in 2003, Schweiger has developed a way to track the emotional state of a group of people with the Net Emotional Index.

Episode Resources
Harvard Business Review article by Frederick F. Reichheld “The One Number You Need to Grow” Explaining the Net Promoter Score - https://hbr.org/2003/12/the-one-number-you-need-to-grow
Episode Highlights
The problem with isolation and independence when working remotely
Why businesses need better staff feedback
The relationship between company culture and the emotional state of employees
The Net Emotional IndexTM (NEI) is a single number between -100 and +100 that tells you how happy – or unhappy – your people truly are
How businesses can improve both culture and bottom line by tracking the NEI over time

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Having crossed the loss of 500,000 Americans on February 22, 2021 the entire country started taking time to mourn. Grief is difficult. It’s at the core of our human condition and that we eventually lose someone. It is also very closely tied to love. The deeper we loved the person we lost, the deeper the grief.

Episode Resources
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline – 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
Grief Counseling
https://www.betterhelp.com/
https://www.talkspace.com/
Episode Highlights
Grief can be a surprise and can show up without warning
Empathy at the workplace is critical when so many people are grieving at the same time
Guided Meditation

Original podcast theme music by Lance Keltner. https://www.youtube.com/user/lancekeltner This episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast was recorded and mixed at MSR Studios in Saint Paul, MN. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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Hosts Tina Schweiger and Michelle Stinson Ross discuss the cultural logic behind our need for happiness. Focusing on western emphasis of the “pursuit of happiness,” they explore the inner workings of how we naturally tend to process emotions and give tips how to do so in a healthier, proactive way.

Episode Highlights
Westernized ideals and falsehoods of happiness
Dopamine is the nervous system’s reward for happiness
Understand negative emotions as a signal, not as something to avoid
Mindfulness can help with processing emotions in a healthy way
Figure out what makes you happy in the moment

Resources Mentioned
Ingrid Fetell Lee - Designing Joy https://aestheticsofjoy.com/learn/

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The feelings of every employee matter because, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), depression causes an estimated 200 million lost workdays each year at the cost of $17 billion to $44 billion to employers. Unchecked stress and feeling unhappy and unfulfilled are often the reasons employees change jobs.

Episode Highlights
Most companies in the US address toxic workplace environment by adjusting policies and procedures to affect behavior, rather than digging deeper into the underlying emotions
While Covid is contributing to general anxiety, corporate culture also impacts the emotional state of the workforce
Empathetic leadership demonstrates how a co-worker is valued by making sure everyone knows they are heard and not dismissed.
Quantifying and measuring emotion makes corporate empathy possible.

Original podcast theme music by Lance Keltner. https://www.youtube.com/user/lancekeltner This episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast was recorded and mixed at MSR Studios in Saint Paul, MN. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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Introduction to the #FeelingsMatter Podcast - Episode 1

In the very first episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast, Hosts Tina Schweiger and Michelle Stinson Ross introduce you to their interest in feelings and emotions. They also provide a little background about themselves and what experience and expertise they bring to this discussion.

Tina Schweiger (she, her, hers) is the CoFounder, Designer and Chief Empath of Mindful Appy. She applies her passion for user experience with scientific rigor– blending the art of design with the science of positive psychology because in life, #FeelingsMatter. Her professional goal is to create digital products and experiences that elevate the human condition. You can learn more about Tina on her LinkedIn profile.

Michelle Stinson Ross (she, her, hers) is the Marketing Director and chief culture creator at Mindful Appy. As a writer and communicator #feelingsmatter to storytelling. Stories help us connect on an emotional level to each other as individual human beings and help us navigate in society. Her goal is to help tell the stories of the people impacted by the journey of mindfulness and share the ways we grow and learn together. You can learn more about Michelle on her LinkedIn profile.

Episode Highlights
#FeelingsMatter to job satisfaction and stress
Trust is tied to emotion
Everyone has emotions and bottling them up is ineffective
Mindfulness and emotional regulation are key to personal and professional growth
Parenting and the lizard brain

Original podcast theme music by Lance Keltner. https://www.youtube.com/user/lancekeltner This episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast was recorded and mixed at MSR Studios in Saint Paul, MN. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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Coming Soon #FeelingsMatter Podcast

Hosts Tina Schweiger and Michelle Stinson Ross provide you with a few hints of what is to come on the Feelings Matter Podcast.

Tina Schweiger (she, her, hers) is the CoFounder, Designer and Chief Empath of Mindful Appy. You can learn more about Tina on her LinkedIn profile.

Michelle Stinson Ross (she, her, hers) is the Marketing Director and chief culture creator at Mindful Appy. You can learn more about Michelle on her LinkedIn profile.

Original podcast theme music by Lance Keltner. https://www.youtube.com/user/lancekeltner This episode of the #FeelingsMatter Podcast was recorded and mixed at MSR Studios in Saint Paul, MN. Copyright 2021, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission.

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