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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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Shame Emotionally focused Under stress Clear all

Theme · Shame

Emotions as signals 5 Shame 1

Approach · Emotionally focused

Trauma informed 7 Emotionally focused 1

When · Under stress

Coming and going 2 Any ordinary day 2 After a row 2 Under stress 1

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