Listening for the Message of Emotions – Part 4 of a 7-part blog series. Late joining this series? Catch up on Part 1 or last week\’s Part 3! It’s great to know that emotions are messengers, but how do we actually hear the message of a particular emotion? How can we listen to emotions? Since […]
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Who Owns Emotions? We all seem to believe that emotions are “ours.” Indeed, when we talk about them, we refer to them as “my emotions,” or “my anger.” In fact, emotions are not “ours.” Just as we have learned that children are with us, yet do not belong to us, so emotions are an intensely
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You Found Emotions: Now What to Do with Them? Part 2 of a 7-part blog series. Late joining this series? Catch up on Part 1! As we noted in our last “You and Emotions” blog post, some people have a very easy time finding the emotions that arise in them, and some don’t. If you
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Emotions and You — Emotions Are Felt in Your Body: Find Them! It turns out many people believe it is possible to get rid of emotions. It is not! There is evidence we experience emotions while still in the womb. They stay with us for our entire life. Emotions come with our body. We feel them
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Do you know that guilt is not even a real emotion? Real emotions have both a positive and negative aspect. Love, for example, is positive in all the ways we humans know. But it’s negative if you are given love that you don’t want (or from someone you don’t want it from). Can you name
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Let’s get one thing straight from the outset: The emotions you experience are not “yours!” Emotions seem like they belong to us because we alone experience them, but they really arise in us. Emotions are messengers. They come to offer a message about how to navigate our life. Which emotions reveal themselves is based on
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That which is “toxic” acts against our health or well-being. How can the beliefs we hold actually work against us in this way? It is our “unexamined beliefs” that are toxic to us. When we don’t recognize our beliefs are creating our reality, nor realize our belief is creating painful or destructive experiences and events,
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We humans live our lives on the basis of what we believe. Beliefs are thoughts or ideas that have built through repetition and have become “truth” for us. It’s important to realize that beliefs are held in the subconscious mind, which believes anything that is repeated often enough as “true” (something advertisers certainly know). Herein
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Plan Your Success for 2019: Release and Let Go of Toxic Relationships. Human beings are designed to “grow out of” manipulation/co-dependency just as we outgrow bed-wetting! Have you ever heard this before? Most people have not. We accept that we must tolerate manipulation, co-dependent behaviors, and “toxic people” because “that’s what human beings do.” Toxic
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Depression is one of the most debilitating states we can find ourselves in. In our society, sadly, we tend to accept “being depressed” as somewhat of a normal state. After working close to a half-century as a Marriage and Family Therapist based in California, I’ve had the opportunity to help people relieve themselves of depression.
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