Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 812. Now, in today's episode,

we're talking about using your emotional wounds to be able to take you through the tough times,

which kind of sounds a little bit weird because sometimes we're in pain,

sometimes we're having anger, sadness, fear, guilt, heart, frustration. Sometimes we're going through

economic crisis. Sometimes we are in a bad breakup. Sometimes people have left us, like passed on or moved on. So there's

going to be lots of times throughout our life where we're going to feel raw emotions. Maybe we've

grown up in a situation in a family dysfunctional unit that made us feel bad about ourselves where we don't feel worthy

deserving or enough maybe it's created panic attacks maybe it's created anxiety nervousness

blushing like I used to and the inner dread that I used to experience so I'm very conscious that many people pretty much on this podcast

experience a kaleidoscope of different emotions.

And it got me thinking about times throughout my life

when I have felt despair,

where I felt as if I don't know if there's

going to be a way out of this.

Times where I felt extremely lost and severely alone, and I want you to know, even if you feel

alone, you're not alone in the experience of it.

It happens. But we don't want to repress

it. You see, the more you repress negative emotions or conflict, it becomes more conflicted.

It becomes actually stronger. We can bury it as much as possible, but it's always going to be there.

Wherever you go, you go there, right? Same thing with your emotions. You can try to repress them,

but they're always going to be there. So that's not going to be helpful. And also, we know

just on a biological level, anger, sadness, fear, guilt, heart and frustration isn't physically good for the body.

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