Moment 131: Why You Need To Start Embracing ALL Your Emotions: Dr. Julie Smith

Uh society has a role to play in telling us how to manage our the emotions we feel when we go through life. You know, on one hand you have this sentiment where it's like kinda just shrug it off, ignore it, keep going. Which doesn't seem to be possible. With like deep emotions actually seems to be that you're just compartmentalizing it in the back room and it's gonna erode your brain from subconsciously. And the other one is that

You know The other narrative we hear is to when you feel strong emotions to really like embrace them and to like but that feels like it can be a bit too consuming that I might not get out of bed in the morning if I really sit and wallow in my emotions. So what is the balance of embracing emotions or kind of shrugging them off and ignoring them? Yeah. And it actually it's quite sort of complex work when um when you look at sort of what happens in the therapy room, um, you know, there are people who when they experience emotion, it's quite unsafe for them because the coping strategies that they've had throughout life have been unsafe or dangerous ones. And so, um, you know, we'll never kind of advise people to just, you know open the floodgates and allow everything in. It's very sort of careful and and

Um there's a process of gearing people up with the tools And I often talk to people about this when when they're thinking about going to something like a trauma therapy, right? So um while that involves uh going over the trauma, uh no decent therapist would ever get you to do that without first gearing you up with the tools to be able to cope with the emotion that comes up. So um

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