I'm Jody Moore and you're listening to Nape Clips episode number 41.

Hey everybody, how's it going?

Hope you're having a great weekend looking forward to a great relaxing weekend.

My children are in bed and so is my husband and I'm up all by myself recording the podcast

so hopefully you can hear me and I won't wake up the house.

I'm really excited to talk to you today.

This episode is called Lairing Emotion.

This is a concept that I've been kind of playing with in my head for a while and something

that I've been noticing in myself and in my clients and I think I finally formulated

my thoughts in such a way that I'm ready to share it with you today.

So I'm really excited about this one.

Many years ago a therapist taught me that anger is a secondary emotion.

When she said this, it kind of resonated with me and it felt right and it felt true and

what she said was that it's healthier for people to stay in the primary emotion.

That normally a primary emotion would be something like sadness or disappointment or frustration

and then it sometimes escalates into a secondary emotion like anger.

And that made sense but I didn't quite know how to wrap my head around it until recently

as I've kind of been toying with this idea of layering emotion.

I feel like I'm really grasping what she meant even more.

It's taken me many years.

I'm a slow learner.

So I think that this concept I'm going to share with you is really powerful with both

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