Feeling Without Falling Apart: How to Start When It Feels Like Too Much [episode 81]
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If you’ve ever wondered HOW to feel your feelings without getting completely steamrolled by them, you’re not alone. Opening up to your emotions can feel like standing in front of a firehose – intense, overwhelming, and impossible to manage.
In today’s episode, I’m talking about feeling without falling apart and how to start when it feels like too much. We’ve all been taught to push through, stay tough, and avoid being too much.
But your emotional system doesn’t shut off just because you ignore it. When you bottle those feelings up, they don’t just disappear – they resurface when you least expect it. Your body WILL send you signs that your nervous system is overloaded (and protecting you).
I want you to approach your emotions safely and slowly. Naming your emotions without trying to fix them, noticing body cues, and even using grounding tools like music or journaling all create emotional fences that allow you to feel without drowning.
The goal isn’t to avoid feeling but to do it in a way that honors your need for safety and regulation! Think of the stockmanship concept: slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
Feeling without falling apart IS possible, but it takes time. If you’re doing this work, I am so proud of you because this is SUCH a brave step. Healing doesn’t happen all at once, but ultimately, it will bring you back home to yourself!
In this episode, Feeling Without Falling Apart: How to Start When It Feels Like Too Much, I cover:
- What can happen when you try to feel ALL of your feelings at once
- What it means to get stuck in fight, flight, or freeze + how to gently return to rest and digest
- Simple tools to help you safely process emotions one step at a time (without letting them take over)
- The power of going slow and steady as you build emotional resilience and safety
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- Good Movement music by: Aaron Espe
- Podcast produced by: Jill Carr Podcasting
Connect with Terryn:
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- Check out my website
- Send me an email at terryn@terryndrieling.com
Related Episodes:
- Episode 78: Emotions Aren’t the Problem – Avoiding Them Is
- Episode 74: Redefining ‘I’m Good’ – Feeling Every Emotion & Healing Deeply
- Episode 69: Cleaning the Shop: Why Feeling Your Feelings Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
More about the Good Movement Draws Good Movement podcast:
In stockmanship (the art and science of handling cattle in a safe, effective, low-stress manner), we have this phrase . . . good movement draws good movement.
It’s this thing that happens when we ask a small group of cattle, maybe a cow, or a pair to move out in a certain direction and their movement draws the whole herd into moving in the same direction.
Good movement happens when we approach the cattle with a positive attitude, read and really listen to what they’re telling us, and communicate accordingly.
We don’t approach the aware, flighty cattle the same as we do the tame, docile cattle. We adjust ourselves, our energy, and approach, and communicate with each differently.
These adjustments help us effectively draw good movement from each, which then draws good movement from the herd. But it starts with us.
The same is true for humans. Good movement starts with us.
Welcome to Good Movement Draws Good Movement, the podcast where farmers, ranchers, and rural folks can grow relationally through awareness, understanding, and effective communication.
Hey, it’s me – T. I’m your host, and I, along with my guests, will be covering topics related to drawing good movement – things like self and social awareness, brain science, positive psychology, extending grace, and so much more.
We’ll share tools that can help you understand why you are the way you are, why others are the way they are, and how you can use that to step out of self-told lies with grace and compassion to draw good movement in conversations, relationships, and life in rural America.
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