Welcome to the Phoenix Helix podcast dedicated to autoimmune resilience. Today, I have a mindset minisode for you, so let's dive right in.

Thank you. Hey, everyone. So today I'm going to be sharing with you a simple but really powerful technique for managing challenging emotions. So we all know that emotions are part of the human experience. And when life gets hard,

challenging emotions often arise alongside. It might be grief, anger, anxiety, resentment, guilt, shame,

rage. The list goes on. They're not fun to feel. and sometimes we can feel really overwhelmed when they come up.

Many of us try to ignore these emotions. We push them down and focus on other things. We might try to

stay really busy and not feel at all, or we might dismiss these emotions and label them as bad and try and focus 100% on positive feelings instead.

And believe me, I've tried both of these things to this day.

That's often my first impulse to do one of those two things rather than feeling things

that are really hard to feel.

But here's the catch.

It backfires.

Research shows that suppressed emotions don't go away.

They get stronger.

And they can also come out sideways in the form of physical symptoms, addictive behaviors,

or lashing out at other people.

None of those things we want.

So if we want to live a healthy life with autoimmune disease, we need to

find a way to express the full range of human emotions, and that includes the challenging ones. So today,

I'm sharing a technique designed to help us do just that. It can take you from overwhelm to calm

in just a few minutes. So this is called the rain practice. And it's a technique that was

created by meditation teacher Michelle McDonald, and then it was popularized by meditation teacher

Tara Brock, who fell in love with the method herself when she was really struggling with chronic

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