Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we were joined by Janet Spangler for a powerful and

practical conversation about emotions, especially the ones we'll do just about anything to avoid feeling.

Janet explains that emotions aren't our enemies, their signals, messages from deep within us

rooted in ancient systems and designed to guide and protect us. While emotions can feel overwhelming

or even painful, learning to pay attention to them rather than suppress or ignore them

helps us understand what's really going on and respond with greater clarity, wisdom, and

connection. She breaks down what emotions actually are, how they begin in our bodies, and why

listening to them is the

key to living a healthier, more wholehearted life. Jana shares practical tools for processing

even the most uncomfortable emotions and teaches us how to build emotional resilience by sitting

with discomfort instead of running from it. This practice, she explains, not only strengthens

our ability to face life's challenges, but

it nourishes our relationships and our physical and mental well-being and our communities, creating

space for greater connection and healing.

This episode is full of tools that will help you navigate the hardest days, and we really

hope that it inspires you the way it did us.

And with that, here's our episode with Jana Spangler.

All right, well, welcome back, Jana. We're so excited to have you back again. And with that, here's our episode with Jana Spengler. All right, well, welcome back,

Jana. We're so excited to have you back again. And we've been excited to have this conversation

in particular. I was just listening to the last episode that you came on for, that was about

faith crisis, which I just want to say is still in our top five most downloaded listen to episode. So I think

you struck a chord and there was one part of that conversation that has been on my mind because

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