Gemma Speig
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1,085 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 May
Gemma Speig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's tricky when you're already in it, but genuinely call yourself out when you are being the bad mood.
Call yourself out when you have bad expectations at the start of every day that this day is going to turn out just like the others.
It's going to be shit.
genuinely, I think that what really snuffed me out of it was realizing that the distance between being annoyed and amused is quite small.
And if you can just shift across those mood states, the load becomes lighter.
Like if I was really annoyed at something, I'd be like, but also this is kind of funny, right?
Shift from annoyed to amused because they sit very close together on like the emotional scale.
Let's talk about some of the worst things that you can do when you are in a funk.
We're going to take a short break.
When we return, we're going to jump into it.
So there are some things that are going to make your funk worse.
Scientifically, the first is when you chase or soothe with quick dopamine constantly, or when you involve yourself in passive consumption rather than turning your attention towards long-term gratification.
We all know it, but when you're in a funk, your phone scrolling may feel temporarily soothing, but it's actually just emotional avoidance.
And at times, like it really is just like an unsustainable form of emotional regulation because it's just covering up the bad feelings without interrogating them and not doing anything to really investigate the root cause of why you feel so terrible.
Like this...
is not going to pull you out of a funk.
Consuming more is not going to help you.
It may distract you from your thoughts for a little while, which sometimes is necessary.
It may give you a little burst of dopamine, but you need to shift away from consumption to creation if you actually want something to change.
Literally nothing changes if nothing changes.
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