Ep. 171: Dr. Carissa Gustafson — Depression 2. How to Make Peace with Painful Feelings—and Still Find Hope
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How to Diffuse From Emotional Experiences and Depression?
"I actually kind of have come to think of emotions as physical experiences or sensations in the body, right?" she says. "Even just having people notice that and name what those experiences are like can help people to again, create that separation." The observer self is a part of you that's always been in the air that can observe your experience when you're depressed and also when you're not depression, he adds. 'We don't need to act on it, we can sit with it, we Can be present with it'
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