Tuning into Emotions

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This is episode 1 93. This is similar to what we've already talked about, so I'm trying to give you layers here, but this one is about tuning into emotions that are coming up for you.

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I'm a parent of four little kids, so let me tell you, I get triggered often real here, but the amazing thing is when I take.

Space for myself to decompress like I did over the weekend. [00:01:00] I had, I was in some situations where I had to be super social and I am somebody who can handle it for a couple hours and then I seriously need a break and four kids I need to have take breaks. So during the summer, I get very dysregulated from that.

Then if I am at retreats where there's a lot of social interaction, especially if they're not my own retreat or conventions or networking events or church events that are longer, bigger, I get dysregulated. So for me, it's taking that time out for myself and then afterwards decompressing and what came up for me, what's going on?

It's kind of that idea.

So let's start with backing up, and this is the way I start my newsletter a lot of the time, [00:02:00] is take a minute to really take stock of how are you right now in this minute? What's coming up for you? What are you feeling? What kind of emotions are you feeling? And I can name M for you using my trusty wheeler over here.

Maybe you're feeling respected. That sounds like a great feeling. I'll take that one. Maybe you're feeling empowered, confident, important, determined, yay. If you are, share those. Maybe you're feeling passion, enthusiastic bliss amused. I'm gonna repeat these. I'm gonna take this with me so that hopefully you can hear me okay.

Maybe you're feeling proud, determined, successful, worthy. I know you can't read these words. If you're watching the video. You also can't see my face, but you can hear me. Maybe you're feeling pleasure, [00:03:00] amused, enthusiastic, satisfy. These are great ones. These are under strong and happy. Maybe you're feeling accepting, sentimental, trusting, relaxed.

Love that one that's under calm. Or maybe you're feeling hostile, grumpy. Jealous, annoyed rage, especially if you're driving. If you're feeling that, take some deep, some extra exhale, disgust, aggressive, frustrated. It's under the anger category of this. If you're wanting a wheel like this, just look up emotional and you'll find it.

Maybe you're feeling stressed. Shock, worry, panic. Nervous, insecure, confused, paranoid, overwhelmed, tension, skeptical, anxious. I feel like a lot of people feel more of the [00:04:00] fear area, so I, I named off all of the areas, everything in that area for you. Maybe you're feeling isolated, ashamed, neglected, lonely, weak, hurt, disappointed, unmotivated, hopeless.

Betrayed, helpless, rejected, and maybe you're feeling like a swirl of all of them. Like the chocolate, vanilla ice cream swirl. You're welcome. If now you're craving ice cream, do you know it's normal to feel that? Sometimes they can oop, sometimes they can be very conflicting emotion, like the sad side of the wheel and the strong side of the wheel.

So what's coming up for you? What are you feeling in this moment? Not have you been feeling, will you be feeling right now?

And then let's go a little somatically. Where is that feeling residing in your [00:05:00] body? And sometimes the answer is everywhere. Duh. But go a little deeper. Where does it feel like the pressure point is that's letting, that's then making it expand out?

Can you maybe breathe into that area?

What is, now, let's go back. What is the emotion that you feel most of the time Is that stress one, if it is, you're my person. Let's talk.

Let's go into the why. Here's the tuning in. Why is this happening? Is this maybe a trigger of something that happened in your past? Are they actually related, or is this where your body is storing this information going into the flight, flight, freeze, or fawn response? [00:06:00] And they're trying to connect them, but they're not really, because sometimes you can feel that nerve sided, nervous and excited energy.

It brings you back to this time when something bad was actually happening and you had similar emotions. That's really frustrating when that happens. It's kinda like that weird spiderweb. Here's where the power comes in and tuning into those emotions because then you can kind of snip them, snip those connections and be like, those aren't related.

I'm okay right now. Bring in your sense of safety. If any of you have done therapy, this is the beginning part of therapy of remembering your safe space, and you can do this right now. When was the last time you felt totally safe? Maybe it's an experience or a person. Bring yourself back [00:07:00] there.

Maybe you just need to go back to what we talked about a couple episodes ago where you're just. Clenching all of your muscles and then you relax them, especially if it's in a certain area. Think about that for a second. Maybe practice it.

Okay. Now

what else is coming up? Where is that deeper layer?

If you need to be able to do this every night or certain times a day, several times a day, whatever, go back to a previous episode that is called the nightly check-in.

It's amazing. I use it and it is a somatic practice that my somatics [00:08:00] coach taught me. It's that idea of somatics and then it's also marrying family systems. So it's that idea of is really the teenager in me coming out or the child in me, or the sage in me, the one that knows it all is very peaceful.

Like the wisdom, not the know-it-all There, there's the know-it-all person, but. The wisdom person. I think the whole, um, boot idea, legs crossed, just very, I know the answer to this. I know the answer to all things. I am peaceful. I come from a place of alignment. Is it the one who had felt betrayed at this point?

There's so many people that as I, as I was taught by my somatics coach, that's on your bus, right? [00:09:00] Who's in the driver's seat right now, what's going on, which is a whole deeper level. If you wanna get into that really deep somatics level like that, I reach out to me. I'll connect you with my somatics coach, but we can go to this basic layer for everybody else who's with me of what's going on right now and start practicing it right now, while hopefully you're in a more calm place.

So that when you are not, you can start to take care of the situation and then come back.

And what came up, what's going on is this, did I really respond the way that I wanted to and why not? And not in this judgment place, but or in the should place, for sure. Stay away from that, but in the, okay, I'm feeling peace now.

I want to look back and I want to [00:10:00] reflect so that I can do better next time in the place of love. I don't know if any of you have had parents like this or had situations like this, maybe with a teacher or anyone else where you were really frustrated and down on yourself about something and they told you it's okay.

Just that very motherly, even if they're male, but that. It's okay. Let me show you lovingly that there's this other path forward. Know that you also have that person within yourself, so that's what you're working with is what came up. What can I do differently and how do I wanna respond from now on, which kind of goes similar to what can I do differently and how do I release this?

Knowing that it is for the good of my own body, the stress that we hold in our bodies, and it is for the good of [00:11:00] when a situation comes, again, that triggers me. I have softened that area, maybe not gotten rid of that little jagged edge all the way, but I'm starting to soften it and you're doing it for yourself.

So you're not holding all that in and then you're not, I think inside out exploding with fire outta your head. Okay, so practice that. Tune in, what's going on.

Because what I found is when I respond and happens the most in parenting, I have one child who is just a very different personality for me. He's the reason why I became a parenting coach on top of everything else that I do, because he has just been a puzzle piece to figure out.

Does anybody have somebody like that in their lives? I'm sure we all do. They might not be super close in our family, like a child, mother relationship, but just understanding their point [00:12:00] of view is foreign to us. And sometimes we have those areas within our lives. So for me, it's when I respond, kneejerk reactions, oh, what's going on?

Where did that come from? Have any of you guys just had this response? You're like, that's, that's not me. What happened? I wasn't even control. Right? Then what happened? This is where this comes in of, okay, what came up? Why, where did this trigger really start from? Maybe I was already feeling super dysregulated, and then something else came up, like overwhelmed, dysregulated, and then something else came up and it was just that, what is it called?

There's several old sayings for this,

basically that, that stick that broke the dam, right? It, it was just that one extra thing. And that thing did was not heavy in itself, but it's everything else that I was carrying that once that was [00:13:00] set on, it just broke everything. So maybe it's going back far enough to be like, oh, all of this was going on.

Okay, what I need to do differently. Maybe take better care of myself. It's usually a lot of it, but it's like, okay, but all of this is going on in my life. I don't know how to put this extra thing on the plate. Right. If you're thinking, and this, I talked about this in coaching last week too, with somebody of, you're at a buffet and you're just adding stuff to your plate, right?

And then eventually stuff falls off. Well, maybe it's being more intentional. What do I want to remove? Instead of waiting for life to just collapse. So that's where it comes into that tuning in with yourself and what's really going on. And then even deeper. Okay, but what else is going on? Like how far back do I need to roll this back and backtrack until I can really see, okay, this [00:14:00] is where the start was.

This is what's going on. And honestly, that's part of therapy of course, but it's also part of coaching. What's going on? Tuning in with myself. Tuning in with my emotions before they become something that doesn't even feel like it's attached to us.

Please share this with others. Of course, we all have people who that we've been around.

I was talking to somebody last again, who was saying that they're a very. Emotional person. They're very sensitive. They're they're creative, if that makes sense. And my experience with other people around this person has been that they can be very angry out of nowhere, just explode out of nowhere. And sometimes those people are crazy, emotional, [00:15:00] crazy sensitive.

So it's, you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around them, and maybe you are that person. I've been there, I've been that person, and it feels so awful. You feel like you are just this tornado of emotions and you're almost like fighting. You're fighting yourself and you just wanna be able to get rid of the old parts that no longer fit anymore, these old emotions.

But you, you can't. It stuck. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on with this person. They're not ready for coaching yet. They were somebody that I met separate from coaching. It's better to leave it that way so that there's more, um, security around the person. But

it's hard. Right. Can you, can you think about people like that, that are in your life? Anyway, they maybe in the grocery store, maybe in traffic, you know, they're not even really super connected to you, but taking that moment [00:16:00] of, oh, it must be really hard for them inside their bodies, what they're living with.

And then you can take that to yourself of, Hey, where do I have that residing within my own body? What am I willing to do about it? Biggest question, what?

This episode, see you next week.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope that you found the answers that you needed, and you had some amazing aha moments. Please share this episode with others because it helps us align ourselves and then better align the world so that we can seek the healing that we really are looking for as part of the legal language.

I am a certified life coach with a Bachelor's in Applied Health. That is what I am leaning on for this. This is general advice. Take it as such. See you in the next [00:17:00] episode.