Feeling Your Feelings: 101

We're often encouraged to "feel our feelings" as a route to healing and greater self-awareness, but what does it even mean? And exactly how does one go about it?

This episode explores:

• The difference between feelings and emotions
• How to tease apart physical vs emotional sensations
• Why sense-making gets in the way of us feeling feelings in our bodies
• Ash's dating life, and how it feels - literally
• And we leave you with a mini-challenge to try out in your own life, to work at becoming a better emotional connoisseur

Show notes:

“You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Feelings—Your Brain Creates Them,” TED Talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over,” Michaeleen Doucleff, Dec. 30, 2013

100 Days of Rejection Therapy from Jia Jiang

Misattribution of Fear for Arousal (the scary bridge study), Dutton & Aron (1974)
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Follow along with Daron's guided exercise, Emotional Meteorology: https://daronlarson.substack.com/p/emotional-meteorology

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Music by @nikitakarmen