Jemma Spike

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Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Spike and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we, of course, break down the psychology of our 20s.

Today, we are talking about an ancient philosophy, which I think normally conjures up an image of bottling up your emotions, pretending not to care, pushing through the hard times with no signs of suffering or

no signs of emotion, rugged men, a stiff upper lip.

That is, of course, the philosophy of stoicism, as many of us think we know it.

As you will come to discover in this episode, stoicism has a bit of a PR problem.

It is not all about suppressing negative emotions and suffering in silence.

It is actually one of the most empowering mindsets that we can develop in our 20s,

Because of how it really helps us just ride the waves of chaos and of change that this decade is going to bring us.

I personally feel like so much of my 20s has involved me trying to control everything and make everything perfect and make everything just as I imagined it.

If you can relate, I feel like this is the episode for you because stoicism basically says, stop forcing it.