Five core emotions—anger, fear, grief, joy, and excitement—are healing when you feel them fully. Shame, regret, and disappointment are learned defenses that protect you from more pain but keep you stuck. Learning the difference lets you move toward what you actually want.
The emotions that if we connect to them powerfully and are willing to be in a healthy relationship with them, it heals everything. Our anger, fear, grief, joy, excitement. Everything else is learned. So let's get you through what feels like an emotion but is actually a way you're coping to protect yourself from further heartbreak. Do you follow me and hear the difference? Yeah, I think it's fear. Well, I think there's fear and there's sadness, but what I'm talking about is shame, regret, disappointment. These are ways that you're coping to help you not have to risk further heartbreak. Oh, that's what's holding me back. Right. And it's okay. It's just. Let's look at the emotions we want to feel into their useful as opposed to the emotional experience that is a dead end that you learned that helps you not have to feel more heartbreak. But when you're avoiding the heartbreak, you're keeping yourself in a purgatory that prevents you from actually getting what you want.
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