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How to practice emotional first aid | Guy Winch | TED
You'd never ignore a cut on your leg. Why ignore the one loneliness left on your mind? 🩹
Who it's for
Winch contrasts how naturally we treat physical injuries with how we ignore emotional ones, which gives viewers permission to take their loneliness or rejection seriously without calling it a disorder.
Lonely→Self-Compassion
Feelings it meets
What it is
A TEDxLinnaeusUniversity talk (November 2014) by psychologist Guy Winch arguing that we care for physical injuries from childhood but neglect psychological ones such as loneliness, rejection and failure.
Where to find it
YouTube, official TED channel (free). On TED.com as 'Why we all need to practice emotional first aid', with an interactive transcript.
Before you start
Heads up: Brief mentions of depression and addiction.
Age: Ages 12+
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 9
