EP 288: How to Navigate Confusing Emotions with Olivia

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is about honoring emotions with compassion and acceptance. Today’s caller, Olivia, is going through a unique situation. She is feeling confused by her emotions and would like guidance on how to feel her feelings without going into “victim” and how to grieve after a loss.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[For show notes go here:</span> <a href="http://christinehassler.com/episode288"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Christinehassler.com/episode288</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is normal for emotions to be confusing. We live in a mental, logical, linear-based world where we want certainty. We want things to make sense. But life isn’t linear, there aren’t five steps to make every sense of everything. Life is messy. It’s complicated. It’s a journey. Especially when it comes to emotions, we don’t want to try to manage them, understand them, or know why. We just need to learn how to feel and move through them. But, often, our mind gets in the way. This is the biggest reason so many people deal with repression, suppression, depression and then have to distract themselves or develop addictions. It’s because we don’t know how to be with our emotions.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of the time, when we are crying or feeling we are analyzing it. Maybe not allowing ourselves to be in the emotion and ride the waves. One wave could have twenty different feelings in it. It is about letting yourself go with compassion.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you want to evolve and be free of some of the stuff that is weighing you down, you have to feel. We only get lost in our feelings when we judge them or when we go into “victim.”</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join Stefanos and me for our 3-day virtual</span></em> <a href= "http://christinehassler.com/innerchild"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Inner Child W