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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 A minute Clear all

Theme · Shame

Emotions as signals 5 Shame 1 When you go numb 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 1 Five minutes 4 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Approach · Emotionally focused

Trauma informed 4 Emotionally focused 1

When someone tells you they have failed, the most useful thing you can do is nothing clever. Let your face stay soft and keep looking at them.

Shame is braced for disgust, so it reads your face before it hears your words. A quick reassurance can even land as a rush to move on. Slower is…

A minuteShameEmotionally focusedQur’an 93:3