Growth & Gratitude4 Okt 2022

Feel Better Now

Do you ever feel overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or overcome with other difficult emotions? Whether you want to feel better right now or would like to learn how to support yourself through those tough moments in the future, this episode is for you.

I'll share five proven, science-based techniques that I use with my coaching clients to help them process and manage challenging feelings, with the end goal of feeling better, even if it’s just a little better.

This is not about avoiding or suppressing intense emotions, it’s about processing them with self-compassion, self-care, and mindfulness. I want to be here for you to help you learn to do that for yourself.

These techniques are also not a substitute for professional counseling, therapy, or coaching, but they may help you elevate your mood enough to decide what kind of support and actions might be most helpful moving forward.

Together, we will…

Explore the power of gratitude
Practice box breathing to shift your perspective in a couple of minutes
Learn to embrace and fully feel any feeling
Work to gently reframe the thoughts that are causing emotional pain
Check in with your own future inner wisdom to view the difficulties you’re facing

Tune in and listen to Episode 6 of Growth & Gratitude, to learn these 5 simple yet powerful techniques to start feeling better now.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Gratitude and its superpowers. How being grateful influences how you feel (2:54)
How box breathing can change how you see the world in just minutes (4:06)
About the importance of building emotional vocabulary and welcoming all feelings (6:58)
It is hard to go from hate to love in a second, but it is possible to see someone who hurts others as someone who is hurting (10:07)
How understanding that life is 50-50 can help us (12:24)
What your future self would think of the things that worry you now (14:43)

Resources:

Meditation for Chaotic Times by East Forest
Guided Box Breathing
Sit Around the Fire Meditation with Ram Dass
Calming the Physical Symptoms of Anxiety Medigraytion (Medigraytions are meditations that guide you to self-direct your neural plasticity and consciousness to alleviate your pain, calm your mind, and grow your consciousness)
CBT Techniques: 25 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets
Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets

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