The Power of Social Connection

When a feeling comes up, sometimes we're able to touch it a little bit. But in order for it to feel like it's moved through us, we need to feel it to completion. Emily would be able to touch the sadness just a little bit, but never to the point where it felt like it moved all of the way through her. We need to learn how to feel in social connection. And when our experiences are invalidated, often because other people don't know how to be with their emotions and so they won't help us stay with ours. The message we take away is that there's something wrong with us. There was something about us that was too much. This all