Welcome, to the Becoming Okay podcast, conversations with your host Meg Schirnhofer, who meets with people who share their lived-experiences with mental health and how they are finding a way to become okay.

We spend so much of our lives chasing a feeling we call happiness, without ever stopping to ask what we’re actually looking for.

In this episode of Becoming Okay, I sit down with Kapil Gupta to talk about numbness, emotional suppression, and what it really means to feel alive again.

We explore:

- Why numbness is often emotional overload

- How childhood conditioning shapes emotional suppression

- Why suppressing pain also blocks joy

- Emotional regulation vs emotional avoidance

- The power of community and feedback loops

- A gratitude practice that actually works!

Chapters

00:00 Exploring Numbness and Emotional Suppression

05:17 The Spectrum of Emotions

11:02 Masculine Conditioning and Emotional Expression

16:40 The Journey to Emotional Awareness

20:30 Facing Fear and Embracing Emotions

24:32 The Importance of Community in Healing

29:26 Feedback Loops and Self-Discovery

31:54 Understanding Our Ancestral Influence

34:40 The Journey of Self-Discovery

37:18 Redefining Love and Relationships

42:15 The Feedback Loop in Relationships

45:10 The Performance to Presence Method

50:54 The Power of Gratitude

Here’s to Becoming Okay, in every sense of the word.

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Podlink: https://pod.link/1843627543

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Find Kapil here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapilgupta/

TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/sdTy9IZR87k

Substack: https://nibananotes.substack.com/