What to Do When You Don't Know What You Feel [episode 153]

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What if someone tells you to feel your emotions but you don’t even know what you’re feeling?

In today’s episode, I’m talking about what to do when you don’t know what you feel. I’ve definitely been there. For a long time, I was comfortably numb and disconnected from what was happening inside my body.

It wasn’t until I experienced grief I could no longer hold that I really began learning how to feel again.

Our bodies often speak before our minds do. But when we’ve spent years putting our heads down, powering through, and getting the job done, we become disconnected from the sensations our bodies are sending us.

When we allow ourselves to feel the emotions we’ve spent years avoiding, we aren’t only making room for anger, sadness, or grief. We’re growing our capacity to experience joy, happiness, and excitement more fully, too!

If you need more support navigating your feelings and emotions, I’d love to walk alongside you on your healing journey. Schedule a free 30-minute call with me, and let’s talk about 1:1 Good Movement Guidance. Don’t forget to mention “castpod” when you book to receive 10% off!

In this episode, What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Feel, I cover:

Why it’s okay if you don’t know what you’re feeling yet
How a simple body scan can help build awareness of physical sensations
Noticing sensations in the body + connecting them to specific emotions
Why emotions are simply information
How curiosity helps us understand what our emotions are telling us

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Good Movement music by: Aaron Espe
Podcast produced by: Jill Carr Podcasting

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Related Episodes:

Episode 62: The Hard Truth About Emotions: You Gotta Feel Them All
Episode 139: Why All Feelings Are Valid + the Purpose Emotions Serve
Episode 151: We Don’t Know How to Hold Grief

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 our approach, and we communicate with each other 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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