Over the past five years I have witnessed thousands of clients struggle with what I passionately feel we should all be taught in school; how to understand why we feel what we do and how this connects us to our core self.
This disconnection usually starts in childhood, when we perhaps didn’t receive the attunement we deserved from our caregivers, or we were told that having big emotions was “bad” or “weak”.
Over time, we learn not to trust our feelings, or even how these feel in our bodies, so when we need to respond to others, we are often more attuned to their emotions than our own. This means we end up stuck in patterns of people-pleasing which can leave us feeling sadness, frustration and resentment/anger as we feel unseen, unheard and misunderstood.
We may have maintained a connection to that other person by denying our feelings, but the cost of this to us is huge!
+ You want to learn more about emotions and their purpose
+ You want to improve your communication in personal relationships
+ You want to understand the difference between core and defensive emotions and how these contribute to anxiety and depression
+ You want to be able to identify your emotional needs so you can respond from your authentic self, rather than the people-pleaser in you
I’ll be talking about how emotions work in the mind and the body and how making these connections will help you connect to what you really want/need, versus how you think others need you to be.
And that actually, by learning to move towards our emotions, rather than away, we allow the body and brain to learn they are safe.
We’ll use the Emotional Sensation Wheel as a guide throughout and this will inform the learning and how we can understand:
⬆️ “bottom-up” emotional experience – where particular body sensations inform our awareness that something is going on emotionally.
⬇️ “top-down” emotional experience – when information (like finding out we’re not getting a promotion we wanted or being rejected by a romantic partner) creates a cognitive awareness of emotion that then moves down into the body.
Because emotional experience moves in two directions, people who struggle to feel, name, and express their emotions can learn to understand themselves at a deeper level when we use both ways of receiving and processing emotional experience.
I’ll weave this knowledge with my own clinical observations of how I see people present when they get stuck with understanding emotional sensation and share the tools I use to help them move towards their bodies and not stay stuck in cognition (thinking) when making sense of feelings.
We’ll meet as a group on Zoom on Monday 13th May @ 7.30pm. The workshop will be recorded for those that might not be able to attend live and will be sent to all delegates.
The workshop will be around 90 minutes.
We’ll look at how the tools I will send to you ahead of the workshop can be used in every day life and how these can support you after this event. These include:
+ The Emotional Sensation Wheel and a blank version for you to use (I have bought the license to be able to distribute these)
+ A list of common defences associated with not feeling emotion
+ A list of physical sensations associated with feeling emotion
I’ll allow plenty of time for questions and discussion too as I think it can really help us when we are in community to hear how others’ struggles usually mirror our own.
You’ll receive a post event follow-up email with journaling prompts designed to help you move towards these feeling states in a safe way, as well as my list of tried and tested resources on this topic, including books, podcasts, etc.
We’ll pack in a lot of information so I guarantee this will deliver a huge amount of value and actionable knowledge for the cost of £50 per person.
(I will not be able to offer refunds so please think carefully before signing up)
If you want to sign up, please CLICK HERE!
I’ll then be in touch with a payment link and once payment has been received, I’ll email the workshop handout ahead of the Zoom.
I’m really excited about this one and it is the first of a series of workshops I plan to offer this year around common themes I see in clinical practice.
I hope to see you online!
In health
Jo