6/30 Willingness: How to Feel your Feelings: How to Process Emotions

Mar 18, 2021

Discover the transformative power of emotional willingness and how it can shift your perspective. Learn practical techniques for embracing self-compassion and managing uncomfortable feelings. The conversation emphasizes the importance of acknowledging, rather than avoiding, emotions for personal growth. Explore how facing your feelings can lead to emotional freedom and a more fulfilling life. Real stories and relatable insights make this journey into emotional processing both engaging and enlightening!

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INSIGHT

Willingness Transforms Emotional Struggles

Willingness is a crucial skill that turns off the struggle with emotions and turns on peace.
It helps channel energy from fighting emotions towards living the life you want.

ANECDOTE

Beth's Experience with Willingness

Emma McAdam shares her friend Beth's story of allowing herself to feel sadness about her son leaving for two years.
By honoring her feelings one day, Beth felt lighter, hopeful, and able to support her family the next day.

ADVICE

Describe and Be Curious with Emotions

Practice describing your emotions with neutral, sensory words instead of judging them as good or bad.
Use curiosity to explore where and how sensations appear in your body to build a healthy relationship with emotions.

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How to Feel Your Feelings: Willingness

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This is the one skill I wish everyone had: willingness, the ability to experience your emotions without needing to immediately escape or avoid them. Willingness is an essential skill from ACT, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It's a practical way to learn to allow yourself to experience what you are feeling so that you can work through it.

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About Me: I’m Emma McAdam. I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I have worked in various settings of change and growth since 2004. My experience includes juvenile corrections, adventure therapy programs, wilderness therapy programs, an eating disorder treatment center, a residential treatment center, and I currently work in an outpatient therapy clinic. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe

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