Mini Episode: Allowing Yourself to Feel Everything and Post Traumatic Growth

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You can find all of the most up to date crisis help & support resources that Eric is making available through The One You Feed by going to www.oneyoufeed.net/help In this mini episode, Eric shares helpful advice and many suggestions on how to deal with strong emotions during this global pandemic. He also offers a hopeful message about the personal growth that can come from such challenges. Allow yourself to be where you are Lower your expectations if you need to Be kinder to yourself and practice self compassion (see Kristin Neff episode) Journaling can be a helpful practice Post traumatic growth - turning adversity into something better Allowing ourselves to explore thoughts and feelings can help not only cope, but create meaning in our lives 7 areas of growth that can come from adversity The importance of routine and structure in our days See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone.
0:12.3	I wanted to do another mini episode and I'm doing it from a particularly windy day here
0:18.3	in central Ohio.
0:19.3	I just wanted to take a couple minutes and talk a little bit about a few things relating
0:25.3	to where we are in the middle of this whole COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, if that's what
0:32.3	we want to call it.
0:33.7	And I've got a couple of thoughts that I think are useful and they are somewhat contradictory,
0:40.5	so bear with me.
0:41.5	But the first one is really to allow yourself to be where you are and to lower your expectations
0:50.2	if you need to.
0:52.0	There are a lot of people I know who seem to be working at about 40 to 60% of their
0:58.2	normal capacity.
0:59.8	They're just really struggling right now, whether it's the anxiety, whether it's the fear,
1:05.0	whether it's the being cooped up at home, it's just we're not ourselves right now in
1:09.8	the way we are.
1:10.8	And so allowing that to be the case is really important.
1:14.7	If you need some insight into self-compassion, which is what this is, I'd encourage you to
1:19.4	listen to our episode with Kristen Neff from a couple weeks ago because I think it's
1:23.5	really important.
1:24.6	I saw something on Twitter the other day that made me laugh and it's from a mom who wrote
1:28.9	on Twitter in all caps.
1:31.0	If you keep them alive, that is sufficient.
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