Emotion Focused Podcast

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

How do emotions work in sport to make us win or lose, or just to motivate us to participate? Psychologist, Thomas Nordhagen talks about the role that attachment and identity play in driving us to run, ski or swim as fast as we can and what it means to athletes when they are no longer able to compete.

Dr Anna Robinson talks about the challenge of being either hypo- or hypersensitive in a neuro-typical world and dispels some of the myths about the emotional experience of autistic people. Anna describes how activism has helped to depathologize autism and contributed to advancing changes in the nature of emotionally therapeutic support.

The second of two episodes exploring the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people and what might be useful in the therapeutic space. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their experience of working with gender and sexual minorities.

The first of two episodes exploring Minority Stress and the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their own lived experience of growing up as ‘other’ in a heteronormative and cisnormative world.

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’? Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

Growing from a dependent infant into a well adjusted adult is a long and complicated process, according to Dr Mirisse Foroughe, and young people need the opportunity to learn to handle life’s hardships and experience difficult emotions. In this episode Mirisse shares some of what she has learnt from over 20 years’ experience riding the emotional rollercoaster with children, adolescents and their families.

When we have unfinished business with significant people in our lives it seems logical that these people should be involved in working things out so we can move on. However, in this episode, Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone explains how associated persistent and difficult emotional experiences related to others can be worked through all by ourselves.

Have you had the experience of the same old difficult feeling coming up again and again, even though you thought you’d worked things out? In this episode Aksel Inge Sinding talks about this common experience and the emotional process that might be going on and making this happen.

Do you have a critical part of yourself that sometimes gives you a really hard time? In this episode Rhonda Goldman discusses the benefits of becoming aware of this critical voice and how tuning into the emotions it generates can be helpful.

What is it that keeps us stuck in old patterns and habits when we really want to change? Anna Oldershaw sheds some light on the complexity of change and to to approach the experience of ‘stuckness’.

Many cultures attach great value to being sociable and extroverted making shyness at times problematic. Robert Elliott, a ‘formerly shy person’, discusses how some people learn to be scared of other people and offers ways of overcoming shyness and even learning how to become more comfortable as a public speaker.