Ep 47: Buffering 101

I haven't specifically spoken about buffering for a little while and it's something that I thought would be helpful as we move into busy social calendars and approaching Christmas, when no matter which way you spin it, there can be stress and high emotion! This episode explains what buffering is, what it means about your relationship with your emotions and self, eating and drinking, what it creates for you, and encourages you to consider what might be possible if you stopped buffering uncomfortable emotions with food and alcohol. Journal Prompts: In what ways do you buffer?What problems does your buffering think it’s fixing?What emotions are you feeling when you tend to buffer?Why don’t you like feeling those emotions? What do you make them mean?What might be the reason to feel those emotions in their fullness?What thoughts and beliefs are creating those emotions within you? Are they true? What are the facts of the situations that drive your buffering? What else could be true in those moments – like what other thoughts could you believe deliberately in order to create a less uncomfortable emotion and therefore less urge to buffer? What does buffering stop you from doing?What does it help you to do? In what ways could you improve your capacity to manage negative uncomfortable emotions and what would be your reasons for doing that? What results would you create if you buffered less? What would change? How would those results serve you? Do you want them? Why or why not?sallywebstercoaching.com