Holding Space & Empathy

QOTW: What have you been up to this week? Georgie: Photo gigs + time flying by Engrid: Her experience weaning off of Vyvanse IN THIS EPISODE: The practice of walking through the discomfort that may arise when others are experiencing a lot of difficult emotions around you, and holding space How you can feel multiple emotions at once The importance of having your feelings validated Our experience with having our feelings minimized during each of our childhoods Learning & practicing giving yourself permission to sit with & feel your emotions Engrid shares a recent real life example of conflict and how she resolved it When you're in a heightened state of emotion (triggered) you can "become your emotion" vs. being triggered and having your frontal lobe (narrator) come back online and observe the emotion "I am feeling this emotion but I am NOT this emotion" Minimizing: that awareness of 'here's what I'm doing' and 'here's what's been done to me' Permission & Validation for our emotions: is what we can do for ourselves and others QUOTES: "Something can be truly joyful and sad at the same time...it's not all of nothing" "Obviously conflict is going to arise, so how do I manage it healthfully?" "Learn how to validate your own feelings first...learn how to be sad, learn how to be angry" "I am feeling an emotion, but I am not the emotion... I am not anger, I am feeling anger" "We tend to recreate the trauma we experienced from childhood without knowing it, and that's what my old brain was doing" GAL PAL CORRAL What has this process looked like for you? How have you learned how to hold space for yourself and others? What has it looked like for you to give yourself permission to feel your feelings? Connect with Us Instagram Facebook Group Engrid Instagram: @livengproof Liveng Proof Podcast Website Georgie instagram: @init4thelongrunblog The Chasing Joy Podcast Website