Get Unstuck: How to Stop Your Heavy Feelings From Burdening You

Jen Barnes, MSW, LCSW, E-RYT, TCTSY-F

Stuck feelings disrupt our lives, often without us realizing.  Learn tools for working with your emotions to feel better inside and out.

Bottling up your feelings and thinking positive thoughts isn’t going to help you feel better. In fact, it will actually make you feel worse.Look, I get why you would think pushing away heavy feelings with positive thinking would help. Our culture of “don’t worry, be happy” stresses constant striving for happiness and teaches us that heavy emotions are “bad” and to be “controlled” or “managed”. Even well-meaning teachers, trainers, and coaches in the wellness space talk about “thinking happy thoughts”, not sweating the small stuff, and “focusing on happy thoughts”.The problem is, when we push down our heavy feelings in this way, they have a way of resurfacing. It’s like trying to hold a beach ball underwater. You can do it for a while, but it’s a lot of work and eventually it breaches the surface - usually in an explosive way.The same is true with our feelings. If we don&#x27;t attend to them and push them down, they resurface in the form of angry outbursts, snapping at people, depression, and even physical pain and illness if we hold them in long enough.So what do we do instead?What do emotionally grounded people do?We see our emotions as information or data about our deeper experiences of what&#x27;s happening, recognize the importance of the data, and lean in and get curious about it.In this workshop you will learn tools for working with your emotions to feel better inside and out.

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