This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Today, feeling your feelings, much easier to say than to do, and especially if you don't fully understand the why or how.

By the end of today's podcast, I hope you have a lot more insight into your own emotional experience and how to use your feelings intentionally

in order to grow as a person, have better relationships, and get more of what you want out of life

and less of what you don't.

Setting the mood for us today is the band Peak Body, P-E-A-K-Body with their song, feelings, a little bit on the nose,

but really like what we're talking about. So thank you to Peak Body. You can learn more about

Peak Body. Check out their other music on their bandcamp page, which is peakbody.bandcamp.com.

So today we're going to dive right into our topic, which is something that sounds simple,

but can be surprisingly tricky, whether you're going through a hard time or whether,

you know, you just want to grow. And that's how to feel your feelings, how to tap

into your emotions in an intentional and productive way. And I want you guys to know that this topic

is coming directly from you and in response to the questions that I've been getting from you guys.

We've had wonderful questions coming through our website, growingself.com, to our blog and

podcast page. I've been reading the comments that you guys have been leaving on recent posts

and also the things that you're sharing with me through social media, Instagram, Facebook,

at Dr. Lisa Bobby, to our email account at hello

a growing self.com. And many of your recent questions are variations on this theme. I don't feel

good. I feel anxious. I feel upset. I feel hurt, I feel bothered, or I feel confused.

I need clarity.

I'm not sure what's going on or what to do next.

And the reasons for your feelings that you've been sharing with me have all been a little

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