Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Feeling your emotions will get you UNSTUCK... #podcast #emotionalhealing #emotionalintelligence

7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, Speaker A emphasizes that emotions are informational cues that, when truly felt, allow the brain to process them and enable conscious, non‑trauma‑driven actions. He warns that many people stop at mere insight without doing the deeper work of feeling and integrating emotions. Speaker B references Dr. Sarah Hensley, a prominent attachment scientist. Speaker A then explains that emotions reside in the body, and unprocessed emotional energy accumulates like files, keeping the nervous system chronically dysregulated. He asserts that shame is the only emotion without any positive benefit, contrasting it with other emotions that have documented adaptive value. Finally, he outlines an emotional hierarchy where anger is the primary emotion, with fear underneath, and shame at the deepest level.

Emotions aren't gonna kill us. They're there to give us information. And when we feel through them, the brain makes sense of that information, and then we can actually act from a place of conscious awareness and decision instead of a trauma response and a response of threat. But that's where a lot of people stop. They stop at the level of insight. We've got a lot more work to do after insight.
Dr. Sarah Hensley, the PhD attachment scientist in relationships, built over 1.5 million followers and has been featured in the New York Times.
Your body is where your emotions live. It's staying stuck in a filing cabinet that just continues to build and build and build. And when the brain knows that there's all of that unprocessed emotional energy, the nervous system stays constantly dysregulated. Shame is the only emotion that has no positive benefit. Every other emotion that we've documented has some research behind it that there is something positive that can come out of it. And most of the time, anger is the top-level emotion. Under that is fear. Under that is shame.
It hits at the level of identity, and it says, "And I can't be fixed." How do we actually become mature to meet our own limitations, such that we live the life of our dreams?