Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

Unmask Your Feelings: What's On Your Heart vs. What's Within!

14 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this reflective segment, therapist Jason Wasser discusses the metaphor of emotional layers that people wrap around themselves, differentiating between the protective feelings that sit on the heart and the deeper authentic emotions that reside within. He emphasizes the importance of granting oneself grace and forgiveness for these protective layers, acknowledging that while the ideal of unconditional self‑love and compassion is lofty, a practical first step is simply accepting that we are protecting ourselves. This acceptance serves as a foundation for moving toward genuine self‑compassion.

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But it got me thinking about, you know, this whole— I said this to you earlier— this layer upon layer upon layer that we place, or we wrap around ourselves with what's hiding, what's on us, as opposed to what's in us. And so I think it's just really important to be able to understand the distinction and give ourselves a little bit of Grace and forgiveness for having something on our heart that we're— that's there to protect us. It's okay. This whole notion of loving yourself and accepting yourself and being good to yourself and being compassionate to yourself, as what I've been saying this whole time, is it's a very lofty, elegant goal, but really not something that we can do that easily in the world today. So how about we start with just by being okay with the fact that we're protecting ourselves.