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Mar 2025
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286. How to actually FEEL your feelings

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In a day and age when 7/10 of us are chronically stressed, living in survival mode, too busy intellectualising our feelings to actually feel them, unsure of whether we will ever feel great happiness again, sometimes we need to return to the basics: how do we actually FEEL our emotions. In this episode we break down: 

  • What emotional blunting really looks like
  • The root in trauma + stress + childhood 
  • Why we intellectualise our feelings 
  • The consequences + risk of emotional breakdown 
  • How to reconnect to your emotions through the body 
  • The emotions-physical sensation map
  • The 90 second rule + so much more 

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