519: How to Process Negative Emotions Without Getting Stuck

About this episode

Michelle Chalfant discusses how to process negative emotions without getting stuck and the importance of allowing emotions to move through us.

In this episode, I'm talking about one of the questions I hear all the time: What do we do with negative emotions? So many of us have been taught to push away, numb, judge, or "get rid of" emotions like anger, grief, sadness, fear, rage, and frustration. But the truth is, emotions are not bad. They are part of being human, and they are meant to move through us. I talk about why we develop resistance to certain emotions, especially when we grew up receiving messages that our feelings were too much, wrong, annoying, or unsafe. When we are not taught how to process emotions, we often reach for ways to numb out, distract, avoid, or blame others for what we are feeling. Key Takeaways Emotions are part of being human, and we are meant to feel a full range of them Many of us learned to block, judge, or numb our emotions because of messages we received growing up "Negative emotions" are not bad. They are simply emotions on the fear end of the emotional spectrum Fear can protect us, anger can help us access power, and sadness can give us important information about our inner world Emotions are energy, and when we allow them to move through the body, they can shift and transform The…

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Chalfant

Topics covered

• negative emotions
• emotional processing
• self-awareness
• mental health
• emotional energy

Keywords

• negative emotions
• emotional processing
• self-improvement
• mental health
• journaling
• emotional spectrum
• fear
• anger
• sadness

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