414: Keeping secrets can harm your health | Psychologist Michael Slepian, Ph.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast · Jun 27, 2022 · 34m

Michael Slepian, Ph.D.: “As isolating as it can feel to have a secret, we all keep secrets and we all keep the same kinds of secrets.” Slepian, a psychologist and associate professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how keeping secrets affects your body and brain, plus: - The surprising secrets most people keep (~13:32) - How to know who you can trust to keep a secret (~16:39) - Why our secrets are all universal (~21:00) - How secrets have evolved in our culture (~24:36) - How to identify a healthy secret (~27:08) Referenced in…