Dealing with difficult emotions can feel uncertain, scary and extremely uncomfortable, especially when we have not had positive experiences with experiencing and expressing our emotion in the past.

In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses:

The tendency to want to suppress, deny, avoid and reject our painful emotions.
How avoiding painful and difficult emotions leads to more suffering and problems in the long-term.
Learning to turn towards painful emotion can be terrifying, especially when we don't know how.
The first two steps (out of five) in how to deal with difficult emotions.
How feeling our emotion leads to our growth and development.

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