Episode Summary

Emotions are here to stay and they get many labels both good and bad. Our culture often dictates what is acceptable in terms of how we express them and when we express them. In this episode, we unpack what this culture calls ‘negative emotions’ and how they have tremendous power to serve us and heal us just as much if not more than what gets labeled as ‘positive’ emotions. Join us while we explore the giving of permission to feel all of our emotions and honor what each has to offer without judgment.

Highlights from this episode include:

Negative emotions being banned by our culture as something that needs to be bypassed
The wisdom of our emotions and what they have to offer us
What emotions really are
The damage that occurs when we stuff emotions
The difference between parking emotions and stuffing emotions
How despair and hopelessness are not dangerous places
Why the story we have around our emotions is more important than the emotions themselves
What your emotions really want from you
Why the ‘wounded healer’ makes the best healer
Our hyper-individualistic culture and how it's killing us
What we can communally do as a society to create safe space for the expression of ALL emotions
BIG emotions and how they unnerve us whether they are our own or those of others
Why nothing more than bearing witness is the greatest gift we can offer during difficult emotions of others