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    Make Your Damn Bed

    @MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

    Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

    Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

    All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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    1872 || socialized emotion Oct 08, 2026
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    The expression of our emotions, the value we put on them, and how we're affected by them is dependent on how we're socialized. The importance we put on certain emotions varies across cultures.


    1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/201803/how-culture-shapes-emotions
    2. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
    3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this-is-america/202603/how-social-cultural-and-political-structures-influence-our-feelings


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    1871 || emotions are manufactured Oct 07, 2026
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    Emotions feel so internally important, but they are actually impacted by so much more than my personal experience. Our society manipulates our emotions and exploits us through them.


    1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
    2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this-is-america/202603/how-social-cultural-and-political-structures-influence-our-feelings
    3. https://medium.com/@v_bhagya/the-politics-of-feeling-how-emotions-move-shape-and-control-us-51e5627a7e1f
    4. https://brianneradke.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/ahmed-sara-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion-introduction-feel-your-way/


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    1870 || when our emotions aren't ours Oct 06, 2026
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    Our emotional states are heavily influenced by the stories we hear, but we tend to forget the narrative and only remember the "feelings". This means we can be influenced by stories that are completely made up. So, we can easily adopt feelings that aren't rooted in reality, but feel so real to us (the feeler), that we start to believe these feelings are facts.


    Emotions are movable. They connect us to "this and that". They move us, connect us, attach us, and transform us.


    We have the feelings, but erase the history of the feeling so that the feeling feels natural, and the story becomes irrelevant. This is how people can become emotionally attached to their own subordination.


    Norms appear through the concealment of repetition.


    1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
    2. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion


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    1869 || emotions are stories that impact our behaviors Oct 05, 2026
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    We should be paying attention to what emotions DO rather than what they ARE.


    We assign emotional values to things because of the way we're taught in our culture. Our emotions orient us towards or away from certain bodies. It allows us to justify biases against entire groups of people because it becomes the cultural norm.


    Unfortunately, there are very bad people who take advantage of this cultural shaping through emotions. They weaponize hatred by co-opting language and making themselves the victims so that we can't help the TRUE victims.


    1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
    2. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion


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    1868 || the emotion economy Oct 04, 2026
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    Emotions circulate and accumulate value across our society through repetition. We must pay attention to what these emotions DO rather than what they ARE.


    We assign emotional values to things because of the way we're taught in our culture. Our emotions orient us towards or away from certain bodies. It allows us to justify biases against entire groups of people because it becomes the cultural norm.


    Unfortunately, there are very bad people who take advantage of this cultural shaping through emotions. They weaponize hatred by co-opting language and making themselves the victims so that we can't help the TRUE victims.


    1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
    2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x4q
    3. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
    4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion


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    1867 || empathy isn't a sin Oct 03, 2026
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    Love should not be harsh or tough. Empathy isn't a sin. It's a crucial aspect to our humanity. If you hear that empathy is a sin, that's a way to avoid the cognitive dissonance necessary to act out of alignment with your morals.


    Empathy is a central feature in our humanity. You can become more objective and reasonable about your empathy, without abandoning it completely.


    If your conscience is screaming that something isn't right, listen.


    Sure, we can be blinded by our subjective relationship to empathy, but we shouldn't be demonizing empathy itself.


    Anything that encourages you to ignore human suffering is propaganda.


    1. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/hard-right-influencers/
    2. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/maga-right-christianity-empathy-toxic/688755/


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    1866 || compassionate empathy Oct 02, 2026
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    We must incorporate moral reasoning, altruism, and compassion into our empathy. Otherwise, we may end up blinded by biases we can't even see.


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    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion


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    1865 || the empathy trap Oct 01, 2026
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    Too much empathy is not always a good thing. Human empathy is highly selective, which means it's not always "fair" or objective. Fortunately, there are ways to be empathetic, more fairly.


    1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-problem-with/202605/the-problem-with-empathy
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
    3. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200930-can-empathy-be-bad-for-you


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    1865 || when it's all too familiar, make life strange Sep 30, 2026
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    When things become familiar, we ignore their magic. Defamiliarization is a way to reclaim that magic. It's a way to renew our perception and reclaim meaning.

    It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. - Anaïs Nin

    Defamiliarization is a literary technique coined by Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, that makes familiar objects or experiences seem strange so readers see them in a new way. It works by disrupting “habitual” perception, so the text revitalizes ordinary details and encourages fresh understanding.


    It's a way to see things again, for the first time.


    This is why art exists. And why it's important to make room for it.


    THE SOURCES:

    1. https://zuckermanhartung.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shklovsky-art-as-technique.pdf
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aplG3ia8mA&t=37s
    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization
    4. https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-defamiliarization-definition-and-examples


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    1864 || your thoughts aren't real Sep 29, 2026
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    Your thoughts aren't real until you make them real with your reactions. Don't let them snowball into something worse by giving them more credit than they are due.


    Learning to detach your attention is a very effective way to reclaim your brain from intrusive thoughts.


    THE SOURCES:

    1. https://psychology-spot.com/thoughts-are-not-real/
    2. https://time.com/article/2026/04/27/should-you-trust-your-gut-feeling-or-is-it-anxiety/
    3. https://psychology-spot.com/thoughts-are-not-real/


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