244: 3 Ways to Connect with Your Feelings

The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle

Laura Doyle

Trustedrelationshipexpert, Narcissism, Verbalabuse, Fixingmarriages, Relationships, Feelinglonely, Relationshipexpert, Alcoholabuse, Self-improvement, Angerissues, Intimacyskills, Midlifecrisis, Affairs, Fixingrelationship, Exhausted, Desired, Society & Culture, Special, Physicalabuse, Empoweredwife, Passionaterelationship, Playfulrelationship, Empoweredwives, Education, Unloved, Relationshipadvice

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Everybody has feelings, but as women, we have emotional brilliance. Maybe your feelings are overwhelming or you think that you’re too emotional or too sensitive and you want to figure out a way to not be so easily hurt. But I don’t know of a way to not feel what you feel. Even if I did, I wouldn’t recommend it. I see being sensitive as a gift. Now that I know how to connect with my feelings, they’re not a burden. They are the key ingredient for so many tender and connecting moments in my relationships. They tell me when I’m enjoying myself, when I want to make a change, and how to care for myself. And yes, when I’m hurt, disappointed or lonely. I know what I want because I connect with my feelings. I know myself because I tune into how I feel. And that helps me make myself happy, even if I start out miserable. On today’s episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we’re talking about three ways to connect with your feelings.

Plus, my guest Theresia’s marriage felt lonely whenever she got her husband’s silent treatment, which sometimes lasted for weeks! He seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. Then she had some insights on how to talk to him. Now, she feels close and playful with her husband, who doesn’t seem so angry anymore. She’s going to tell us how she did it so you can do it too!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I felt disappointed that he didn't appreciate me, but you know scared that he said he doesn't not know anymore what to do and then actually my husband became angrier and angrier.
0:17.0	I like I would get a silence treatment that lasted several weeks at a time sometimes and it was very embarrassing when we met when we were
0:27.4	together with friends and he does not talk to me it I felt lonely and really embarrassed that our relationship is like this. And I was desperately looking for a solution for that but nobody really could point me in the right way and
0:47.6	also actually my husband is in a leadership position so I couldn't just talk to
0:52.2	anybody for advice.
0:54.0	Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired and taken care of and special even if your relationship feels hopeless.
1:12.0	I'm Laura Doyle and today we're talking about three
1:14.5	ways to connect with your feelings. My guest, Theresa's marriage felt lonely
1:20.1	whenever she got the silent treatment from her husband which sometimes lasted four weeks.
1:26.2	He seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. And then she discovered some new insights on
1:32.0	how to talk to her husband. Now she feels
1:35.3	close and playful with him and he doesn't seem so angry anymore. She's going to
1:40.3	tell us how she did it so you can do it too.
1:43.4	But first, let's talk about three ways
1:45.8	to connect with your feelings,
1:47.8	because feelings are one of our superpowers as women.
1:51.7	I mean, everybody has feelings, but as women. I mean everybody has feelings but as women we have
1:55.4	emotional brilliance. That's one of the five gifts of femininity and maybe you
2:02.2	think your feelings are overwhelming or that you're too emotional or too sensitive and you'd like to figure out a way to not be so easily hurt. I remember feeling the same way, but I don't know of a way to not feel what I feel.
2:21.5	And even if I did, I don't think I would recommend it. I don't think of
2:26.7	feeling hurt as an overreaction. It's just my reaction. It can seem like a burden if you've been told that you're too sensitive, but I see
2:37.2	sensitivity as a gift. I remember being so overwhelmed with hurt in the past that it seemed like a bottomless
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Laura Doyle, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Laura Doyle and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.