The third series of the chart topping podcast Getting Emotional launches today, with a host of new emotions and fantastic guests. Each episode features an emotion you may have felt, but had no idea there was a name for and host Bex interviews an expert in the emotion or someone who has felt it.
Bex was inspired to start Getting Emotional after losing her mother to cancer whilst also undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer herself. Bex’s mother died on the same day she found out her own cancer had gone, and since then Bex has understood just how important it is to accept your emotions, even when they contradict each other.
The word that she first discovered to help her on this journey was liget – a primal feeling of emotion from a tribe in the Philippines – which gave comfort to her again earlier this year, when her father died.
After finding words for emotions she had felt but hadn’t seen articulated anywhere else, she decided to explore as many more as she possibly could. Bex believes there is solace in knowing that you are not alone and without even knowing it people on the other side of the world are going through the same feelings, and they might have a name for it when we don’t.
Host Bex Lindsay says: “Making this podcast has opened my eyes to just how many emotions are out there- and that it’s ok to feel them! So often we’re told that ‘getting emotional’ is a bad thing, which makes us feel even more ashamed or lonely. But feeling emotions is incredibly natural, and there are more of them out there than you might know; both positive and negative. Plus, I can guarantee you’re not alone. If you listen to this podcast you’ll rest assured that the feelings you have are more common than you realise…!”
This series has six brand new emotions to discover; some invented in the last twenty years, some in the last thousand. Listeners will discover feelings including the pettiness of ‘The Ick’, (popularised by Love Island) the Anglo-Saxon early morning fear of ‘uhtcaere’ with Times Radio’s Breakfast host Stig Abell, and feeling like the weight of the world is on your shoulders- the German ‘welschmerz’- with comedian Rufus Hound.
Each episode aims to give context and historical background to an emotion and will help listeners feel more connected to their mental health. Each podcast aims to prove that even if you thought you were going through something alone, there’s definitely someone else who’s gone on the same journey.
Previous guests include comedian Nish Kumar, broadcaster Clare Balding, photographer Rankin, activist Gina Martin and her sister, comedian Stevie Martin and episodes have hit number 1 in Apple’s UK Documentary Charts. The series was nominated at the International Women’s Podcast Awards 2021 and has also been featured in the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Great British Podcasts, and was recommended by Miranda Sawyer in The Observer, calling it ‘funny and upbeat’.
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