Holding Hands with Hard Emotions: How to Define, Process, and Learn from Your Discomfort

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Anxiety can find us at any moment without rhyme or reason. But what should we do when it arrives? If you’ve been struggling with anxiety or any other difficult emotion lately, today’s Yoga Girl Podcast episode will help you recognize your triggers, pause before your reactions, and learn to sit with difficult feelings. As Rachel sat down to record, an overwhelming sense of anxiety was lingering within her. Her innate reaction was to jump into “fixing” mode. Surely she would feel better if she tackled her to-do list and got a lot of things done. But is that really true? Rachel reflects on a moment she had with her daughter recently that reminded her where the healing really happens. We need to feel the entire spectrum of human emotion in order to fully embrace our happiness, our joy and our humanity. You shouldn’t sell yourself short of an experience just because it’s hard. It could be leading you somewhere. Tune in to tap into your innate knowledge to feel and to heal. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of the show. Today on the Yoga Girl podcast I
0:06.5	talk about anxiety. The day I recorded this episode I was feeling overwhelmingly
0:13.5	anxious. One of those days where I woke up and anxiety was there and it just
0:18.2	lingered with me all day. I talk about our innate gut reaction of always wanting
0:24.5	to fix and solve the problem that might have led to our anxiety versus the thing
0:30.6	that actually is most helpful, which is giving ourselves the support and
0:34.5	space we need to feel the feeling. To dwell in our discomfort, which is where all
0:40.9	the healing actually happens. I also talk a bit about parenting and how we end
0:45.8	up often parenting ourselves through parenting our kids as they move through
0:51.0	hard feelings to. I think today's episode is a really good one.
0:59.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome, my darlings. It's that time of the week again. It's
1:05.5	time for a brand new episode of your favorite podcast, right? It is, it's your
1:11.0	favorite podcast. It is, I know it is. It's time for the Yoga Girl podcast
1:15.3	conversations from the heart. When I am so glad that you're here. I really am. I
1:24.4	almost didn't record today. I am feeling very, I'm feeling very sensitive today.
1:33.8	Having a really anxious day, I'm really trying to avoid saying I am anxious
1:39.4	because anxiety is something that visits me at times. It doesn't define me. It's
1:44.6	not who I am. But I am experiencing a lot of anxiety today and I don't know why.
1:53.0	So today really is my day to record the podcast of the week. And I almost
1:58.9	didn't come here to talk to you because I felt like, I would rather sit down
2:05.4	and share when I'm feeling really good. I would rather sit down and share when
2:10.6	I'm feeling confident or when I'm feeling inspired and wise or yeah, and I
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