Understanding Suppressed Emotions
Hilary Jacobs Hendel discusses the importance of feeling, dealing, and relating all at the same time, and how suppressed core emotions can manifest as anxiety and depression. She shares her personal experience of coping with anxiety through constant productivity and the subsequent crash and burn. Hilary emphasizes the need for emotional education to demystify our emotions and offers insights on how to slow down and address uncomfortable feelings.In this clip
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#048: Why You Can’t Just “Get Over It” with Hilary Jacobs Hendel
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How can emotional health be taught as discussed in episode #048: Why You Can’t Just “Get Over It” with Hilary Jacobs Hendel and the clip Understanding Suppressed Emotions?
How can emotional health be taught as discussed in the episode #048: Why You Can’t Just “Get Over It” with Hilary Jacobs Hendel and the clip Understanding Suppressed Emotions?
In the episodes Mental Health Toolkit: Tools to Bolster Your Mood & Mental Health and Emotional Granularity, as well as in episode 3 Popular Truths that Keep You Stuck With Michael Griswold and episode 294: The new science of dealing with anxiety | Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., if a person is instructed to try and feel positive emotions like joy, happiness, and excitement during the initial attempts to keep the body calm using breathwork when negative beliefs or thoughts arise, and while redirecting focus to the intention of becoming a famous singer, will they probably only feel frustration and anxiety as the brain begins to adapt to this new belief and dissociate from the negative default thoughts? Moreover, only after consistent practice, when the brain has started to embrace the new thought—seeing the person as a famous singer—would they be able to feel those emotions of joy, happiness, and gratitude? Is it also possible to feel some of these positive emotions in the early stages while engaging in neuroplasticity, even amidst feelings of anxiety and frustration? Can one experience both positive and negative feelings simultaneously in the beginning?