Category: Emotions

Building Emotional Intelligence: Demystifying Emotions

8/26/2022

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Emotions are Energy in Motion

Emotions can seem mysterious until we understand that emotions are simply energy moving within our body. We don’t tend to enjoy feeling intense emotions. Even the emotions that we often think of as positive can be experienced as quite unpleasant and overwhelming if the intensity is too high. But conceptualizing emotions as energy that simply needs to move through our bodies can help us begin to let go of negative conditioning and fear we have been taught around feeling and expressing intense emotions.

Surviving Difficult Emotions: Be With It, Not In It

7/1/2022

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"Be With it, Not In it"

One of the primary reasons people come to therapy is because they aren’t sure how to cope with strong, intense, or painful emotions. And it makes perfect sense that so many people would struggle with this skill set, because culturally we aren’t taught how to relate to and understand our emotions.

Invite Your Emotions in For Tea

4/15/2022

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Turning Toward Our Emotions

As with any aspect of life, when we don’t understand something it can feel intimidating and scary. The same goes for our inner selves and our emotions. Most people fear their emotions. Fear the intensity of them. Fear what they may do when they’re feeling them.

Befriending Our Emotions: The Road to Self-Trust

3/4/2022

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Fear of Emotions

Most of us didn’t grow up learning how to relate to our emotions. In fact, most of us didn’t grow up talking much about our emotions at all. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t learn lessons about them. We learned plenty of lessons. Most of them just weren’t consciously or intentionally imparted upon us, and like most things that aren’t consciously and intentionally chosen, the messages we received were shaped by unexamined baggage.