Ep. 154: Why Don't We Express Our Feelings?
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Expressing our feelings, not just to others, but also to ourselves, is crucial to our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing as well as to the health and wealth of our interpersonal relationships. So, why then, do so many of us have a pattern of not expressing our feelings? Natalie explores these reasons and more in this episode, plus in the follow-up episode next week, she'll get into the practicalities of talking about our feelings and evolving our relationship with our emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello hello hello. How are you doing? Welcome to October. So what am I talking about today? Well I'm |
| 0:17.8 | talking about feelings, specifically talking about our feelings or actually why we don't talk about our feelings. |
| 0:26.0 | Now I realized how big this subject is and so while I'm definitely not going to even get into everything I figured you know what |
| 0:35.8 | over a couple of episodes I'm gonna do a deep dive on this topic and so in this |
| 0:42.4 | first episode I'm going to get into why we, as humans, as a society, |
| 0:49.9 | why we struggle to talk about our feelings. What are some of the experiences that we have |
| 0:56.7 | had that influence our relationship with our feelings as well as our relationship with other |
| 1:02.2 | people's feelings? Why do we feel uncomfortable? Why do we |
| 1:06.6 | feel ashamed? Why do we feel as if there is something wrong with us needing or wanting to express what we are feeling. |
| 1:16.4 | Why do we feel so disconnected? |
| 1:19.4 | I'm also in this episode going to talk about why we decide not to say something in those |
| 1:29.0 | instances so we've got those contributing factors that have shaped our pattern in terms of how we do or don't |
| 1:36.2 | express our feelings but there are also I think that another set of factors that |
| 1:42.0 | are also connected to those that impact on why in the moment |
| 1:48.0 | where we have an opportunity to turn around and say something why we don't, such as for instance it being you know bad timing or |
| 1:57.2 | you know denying or rationalizing and minimizing what we're feeling. In the follow-up episode which will be in next week in episode 155 I will then get into |
| 2:09.1 | the sort of typical patterns that some of us adopt when it comes to talking about our feelings, which really |
| 2:16.3 | kind of falls into wearing the hot button ones on our sleeve, being super chatty but not actually really talking about what we need to |
| 2:26.8 | talk about or kind of holding them back because we're just kind of trying to deal with them all on our own. |
| 2:35.2 | And then how we can evolve some of these habits so that we feel better about us but also feel |
| 2:42.1 | more confident and secure within our relationships. |
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