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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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Emotionally focused Five minutes Under stress Clear all

Theme

Shame 1 Emotions as signals 1

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 2 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 2

Approach · Emotionally focused

DBT skills 3 Body based 3 Emotionally focused 2 Mindfulness 2 Core 2 CBT 2 Grief 1 Parts work 1 Trauma informed 1 Medical and treatment 1

When · Under stress

After a row 12 Any ordinary day 11 When apart 4 Under stress 2

If the size of the feeling does not match the size of what just happened, it is probably carrying something older into the room.

Feeling has no real sense of when. An old injury arrives in the present body with all its original force, which is why a small remark can flatten…

Five minutesEmotions as signalsEmotionally focusedQur’an 12:84

Shame does something cruel. It makes you want to disappear from the very person whose warmth would settle it, so if you notice yourself going quiet and pulling back, that pull is the shame talking rather than the truth about you.

Watch for the small retreats. Not answering a message, keeping an answer short, changing the subject when someone asks how you are. You do not have…

Five minutesShameEmotionally focusedQur’an 39:53