Emotional Childhood vs. Emotional Adulthood: A Valuable Lesson on Taking Control of Your Happiness w/Krista Olsen

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">85 - 90% of adults function in emotional childhood. We outsource our happiness to others. We blame, rage, lash out and generally avoid taking full responsibility for how we think and feel. It’s what we’ve been taught our entire lives - but unfortunately what we’ve been taught significantly disempowers us.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The truth is, to have the lives we want, we have to move into emotional adulthood, but how do we change the way we’ve functioned for so long?  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, we have a special guest taking over the Simply Worth It podcast. OBGYN and life coach, Krista Olsen shares the power of emotional adulthood and how to achieve it. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- Emotional childhood vs. emotional adulthood</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emotional childhood is like putting your emotions on a silver platter and giving them to someone else. How do we stop letting others have so much power over us? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- The two questions to constantly ask yourself</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who do you want to be and how do you want to act in this world? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>- Why emotional childhood takes away our power </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What goes wrong when we blame everything, from our jobs to our relationships, for our lousy outcomes?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>Guest Bio</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Krista Olsen is a board-certified OB-GYN, partner with OB-gyn Specialists based in Edina, Minnesota. She became certified as a weight loss and life coach in 2019, and began True Life, MD in 2020. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, 2 kids, ages 4 and 5 and Goldendoodle, C