ERP 224: How To Deal With Difficult Emotions - Part Two
Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide · Dr. Jessica Higgins
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Show Notes
Dealing with difficult emotions can feel uncertain, scary and extremely uncomfortable, especially when we have not had positive experiences with experiencing and expressing our emotion in the past.
In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses:
- The next three steps (out of five) in how to deal with difficult emotions.
- How we can recognize and identify our primary emotions.
- How acknowledging and naming our difficult emotions lessens the intensity of them and helps us begin the process of organizing and dealing with the emotion.
- How the questions we ask ourselves can contribute to more suffering and pain.
- What we can learn from our feelings and emotions.
- How the insights, learnings and lessons can help us move forward in a more powerful way.
- How self-compassion and understanding can help in the process of dealing with difficult emotions.
Mentioned:
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Shifting Criticism into Connected Communication - Free Guide
- Untamed, by Glennon Doyle
- ERP 223: HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT EMOTIONS – PART ONE
- ERP 142: How to Increase Relationship Satisfaction with Mindfulness
- ERP 143: How to Increase Relationship Satisfaction with Mindfulness – Part Two
- ERP 144: HOW TO INCREASE RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION WITH MINDFULNESS – PART THREE
- ERP 140: How Pain and Suffering Increase & What to Do about It
- ERP 141: How To Decrease Relationship Pain and Suffering
- ERP 156: What Happens When You Feel Like A Victim In Relationship
- ERP 157: HOW TO SHIFT OUT OF THE VICTIM POSITION
- ERP 095: How Your Beliefs Can Destroy Your Relationship
- ERP 096: HOW YOUR BELIEFS CAN DESTROY YOUR RELATIONSHIP – PART TWO
- ERP 135: HOW TO HANDLE GRIEF AND LOSS IN RELATIONSHIP – PART ONE
- ERP 136: HOW TO HANDLE GRIEF AND LOSS IN RELATIONSHIP – PART TWO
- Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships, by Dr. Susan Johnson
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