Is gossiping bad for your mental health?

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–Your brother just got his girlfriend’s name tattooed on his leg and your parents are going to flip out.

You find out that a coworker is cheating on his fiancé.

–Do you think if you heard this you would feel an urge to tell someone? Damn right you would!

In this Self-Coaching episode, we discuss whether gossiping is, in fact, part of our human nature—after all, everyone does it. But why? Why do we do it?  Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Could our tendency to gossip be harmful to our mental health? Join me in this episode to understand this rather intriguing tendency to, “spread the news.” Especially, the negative news.

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