Emotions

Guilt, anger, shame, sadness, jealousy. The feelings you were taught to push away – what they are doing in your body, and a simple way to let them move.

15 articles

  1. How to Deal With Regret When You Can't Stop Going Back The same scene replays every night. How to deal with regret by feeling what it carries now, grief, fear or anger, so the mind can stop going back.
  2. How to Deal With Envy Without Hating Yourself for Feeling It Envy is a feeling, not a flaw. Envy vs jealousy, why it hits with people you love, and how to deal with envy without shame, starting with where it sits.
  3. Fear of Being Alone: What You May Really Be Afraid to Feel It's often not the empty house you fear, but what rises in the quiet. Fear of being alone, what it keeps you in, and a gentle way to meet the ache.
  4. Fear of Abandonment: Where It Comes From and How to Feel It You want to text him again, right now. Fear of abandonment is less about the other person than about a feeling. The signs, and what to do when panic hits.
  5. Why Do I Feel Guilty All the Time? And How to Put It Down Guilt when you can't say what you did wrong may be an old feeling, not your conscience. Why do I feel guilty all the time, and where it sits in the body.
  6. Where Is Sadness Stored in the Body? How to Let It Move Where is sadness stored in the body? Often in the throat and behind the breastbone. Why it stays there, and a five-minute way to let it move.
  7. Somatic Exercises to Release Emotions: Try Stillness First One of the simplest somatic exercises to release emotions is stillness. A 15-minute exercise, step by step, and why lying still lets feelings move.
  8. Shame Stored in the Body: Where It Hides and How to Let It Move A hot face, a sinking belly, a wish to disappear. Where shame stored in the body hides, why running keeps it there, and how to stay with it instead.
  9. How to Stop Feeling Jealous: Where It Comes From and What Helps Arguing with jealousy, or controlling the other person, rarely stops it. How to stop feeling jealous by doing the opposite of what the mind wants.
  10. How to Release Emotions Trapped in Your Body and Let Them Move You don't push a trapped emotion out, you feel it, lying still. How to release emotions trapped in your body: the signs, why they stay, and how to begin.
  11. How to Release Anger Stored in the Body (Without Hurting Anyone) No screaming, no hitting pillows. How to release anger stored in the body: where swallowed anger hides as heat or trembling, and why it stays until felt.
  12. How to Process Emotions: Feel Them in Your Body, Not Your Head Thinking and talking haven't helped? How to process emotions without understanding them first: find where the feeling sits, and stay. A 10-minute start.
  13. How to Let Go of Resentment: Feel It Instead of Replaying It Forgiving in your head hasn't worked and it keeps coming back. How to let go of resentment by going to where it sits: the jaw, the throat, the chest.
  14. How to Deal With Fear of the Future When Your Mind Runs Ahead The mind runs ahead while the body pays now. How to deal with fear of the future when planning and positive thinking stop working: come back to the body.
  15. Heavy Feeling in Chest From Sadness: Why It Stays So Heavy A stone on the breastbone that's there even on good days. Why a heavy feeling in the chest from sadness sits there, and a way to stop holding it off.