Thanks for tagging me in your work and references. I’ve been immersing myself in it but not been able to respond till now🙃
Learning to regulate my emotions has been on the back end of this crazy healing journey I’ve been on. It’s also taken me beyond what is medically believed possible. Though if an “inability to regulate emotions” is on…
Thanks for tagging me in your work and references. I’ve been immersing myself in it but not been able to respond till now🙃
Learning to regulate my emotions has been on the back end of this crazy healing journey I’ve been on. It’s also taken me beyond what is medically believed possible. Though if an “inability to regulate emotions” is one (less known) root cause medically, then I’m firmly of the belief that learning to regulate emotions is one way to counteract the disease. Preposterous when applying a medical lens I know😆 but like I say, one that’s taken me further than is medically believed possible.
As a result of the journey I’ve been on, you’ll most likely find me asking the question “how are you feeling?” And if it’s in my insta stories as it often is, followed up with “how are you really feeling?”
Additionally, after reading “freedom from the known” as part of my yoga teacher training, I no longer see emotions as positive or negative. I feel we’ve done ourselves a disservice with such a label - and from a healing perspective I don’t think it serves to see emotions as good/bad, right/wrong. We are meant to feel the full range of emotions, each serves a purpose and can act as a guide, gifting much needed insight. Sensitive is the new strong as they say.
I hear you, Amber - 100% there is no good or bad, they just are, and they are like our own personal signals trying to tell us something -...we have to try and figure ourselves out & what it is we need
I'm not an expert on her work, so I recommend reading Prof Barrett's work for yourself.
I think your point about the questions is good - I also think the other person may have limited 'granularity' on their feelings - on how to articulate deeper feelings/reason for those feelings. It's why I think these days, compared to tight small communities historically, we have more difficulties really connecting with each other. our emotional literacy is not an automatic skill and it's undervalued in this fast paced world.
Thanks for tagging me in your work and references. I’ve been immersing myself in it but not been able to respond till now🙃
Learning to regulate my emotions has been on the back end of this crazy healing journey I’ve been on. It’s also taken me beyond what is medically believed possible. Though if an “inability to regulate emotions” is one (less known) root cause medically, then I’m firmly of the belief that learning to regulate emotions is one way to counteract the disease. Preposterous when applying a medical lens I know😆 but like I say, one that’s taken me further than is medically believed possible.
As a result of the journey I’ve been on, you’ll most likely find me asking the question “how are you feeling?” And if it’s in my insta stories as it often is, followed up with “how are you really feeling?”
Additionally, after reading “freedom from the known” as part of my yoga teacher training, I no longer see emotions as positive or negative. I feel we’ve done ourselves a disservice with such a label - and from a healing perspective I don’t think it serves to see emotions as good/bad, right/wrong. We are meant to feel the full range of emotions, each serves a purpose and can act as a guide, gifting much needed insight. Sensitive is the new strong as they say.
I hear you, Amber - 100% there is no good or bad, they just are, and they are like our own personal signals trying to tell us something -...we have to try and figure ourselves out & what it is we need
I'm not an expert on her work, so I recommend reading Prof Barrett's work for yourself.
I think your point about the questions is good - I also think the other person may have limited 'granularity' on their feelings - on how to articulate deeper feelings/reason for those feelings. It's why I think these days, compared to tight small communities historically, we have more difficulties really connecting with each other. our emotional literacy is not an automatic skill and it's undervalued in this fast paced world.
LOTS we can discuss and exchange
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