How to Welcome All Our Emotions

Part of the issue with welcoming our emotions lies in the fact that we need a large cultural shift in the way we view emotions and the education around it.

But there are things that we can do to be more accepting and deal with uncomfortable emotions. While we can’t fully cut out uncomfortable feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety or fear, we do have control in our response to these emotions.

Pause and Evaluate

It’s okay to take a moment to just sit with a feeling and breathe. We may not be used to pausing and making ourselves slow down to recognise our emotions. However, this can help us to better understand what we’re feeling and why we may be acting a certain way.

Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness is another, more structured way to slow down and evaluate your emotions. You can practice mindfulness in the traditional sense or pursue other activities that help you sort through feelings, like journaling or spending time in nature. Find an activity that calms whatever unpleasant feelings you may have, so that it doesn’t drive you away from confronting it.

Have Self-Compassion

Sometimes we judge our emotions and get upset with ourselves for feeling a certain way. This doesn’t help us to sort through our feelings well. Try to have self-compassion and be kind to yourself, even if you feel frustrated as to why you may be feeling a certain way.

Talk to Others

When we have open conversations with people we trust about our feelings, it helps us to process them and look at them from a different perspective. It also shows the person you’re talking to that they have a safe space to be open with you too.

Try Emotion-Based Coaching

While talking to a friend or family member about your emotions can help, if you’re still feeling stuck with how you’re feeling, emotion-based coaching can also help. Unlike traditional therapy this modality is all about helping people to understand their emotions, how to process them and create improved strategies to resolve the root cause. It’s a great way to work through the uncomfortable feelings and become more resourced in working with what’s not working.

Sometimes we don’t welcome emotions because they are difficult to define or confusing to us. And sometimes we may judge our own feelings or feel ashamed of them. However, when we avoid or delegitimise our feelings, we tune out important clues about who we are and what we may need. It limits our capacity for self-understanding. We can all work on finding healthy ways to deal with uncomfortable emotions.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR & COACH

Catherine is a heart-centred wellness therapist, transformational coach, intuitive counsellor and mindfulness facilitator who specialises in helping you create calm confidence, nourish your self esteem and self-love, build healthy boundaries, ditch perfectionism and people-pleasing, and get out of your own way to achieve the life you deserve.

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