Observing Emotions

06/02/20 • 24 min

I wasn’t one for sitting with emotions. My life tends to go so fast that this was a practice that I couldn’t see the benefit in. I was pretty wrong about that. Being able to listen to my emotions and see how they come up for me in my body has been life changing in many ways. Understanding what triggers me, while noting the feelings and reactions that come up, has given me a lot more power to choose how I want to respond. This has been a good first step for me in learning to listen to my body, as I’ve discovered patterns and develop more trust. In doing that I know that when I’m willing to feel any emotion, there’s so much more I could do in the future.

What I did:

Change state when I need to
Breathe through it
Label it
Describe it in detail
Write it down (when I’m looking for patterns)

Takeaway Tip

Try labelling your thoughts and feelings throughout the day.
Set multiple alarms remember to pause as you are
Notice whether you’re having a thought or feeling
Simply say ‘thought’ or ‘feeling’ without judgement

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What I did:

Change state when I need to
Breathe through it
Label it
Describe it in detail
Write it down (when I’m looking for patterns)

Takeaway Tip

Try labelling your thoughts and feelings throughout the day.
Set multiple alarms remember to pause as you are
Notice whether you’re having a thought or feeling
Simply say ‘thought’ or ‘feeling’ without judgement

Connect with me:

On IG: @theadhdgoodlife

On FB: The ADHD Good Life

Site: www.wellnessandwhiteboards.com

Click for my ‘Building Self Worth’ freebie: https://bit.ly/35zfy57

Support the show

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Issues with Self Trust

I think we grow up learning not to trust ourselves, ignoring what we feel is right for us because of all the ways we’re told by the people closest to us and the rest of society what we need to learn to change and correct. The criticism feels like so much and it’s so hard to navigate with our emotions, so we learn to stop listening to ourselves and do what others want in the hopes that they will befriend us, help show us that we can be better. We think that others may be able to guide us to be better. We’ve been wrong so often, we can’t trust that we know what’s right for us anymore. All the criticism around us teaches us that we can’t trust ourselves to do things without others’ help. This episode explores how this looks like for me with a few stories and the one thing that I’m doing to help develop my self trust and why this works.

What I knew:

Not listening to my intuition
Not remembering the lessons learned in past mistakes
Constant criticism
Listening to everyone else around me and not myself
Feeling feel so intense,

The problems with self trust I experience:

Control
Perfectionism
Oversensitive to criticism
People pleasing

Takeaway tip:

One Small Self Care Promise (ex: write 3 things you’re grateful for, drink a glass of water first thing, make your bed, stretch, do 10 push ups first thing)

Resources:

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Neurodivergent Narratives Podcast - Observing Emotions

Transcript

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We get trained to bury them, something happens. And it triggers us to feel angry or upset, but we get trained to bury them so that we don't upset white people that are around us, or we don't upset what we're supposed to do in this system because upsetting that has a huge impact on our lives. Hey there, you're listening to the ADHD Good Life podcast. Each week, we explore stories, ideas, or topics around neurodiversity from an intersectional lens, and the personal growth strategies we fou