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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 Twenty minutes Clear all

Theme · Shame

Emotions as signals 6 Shame 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 4 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Approach · Emotionally focused

Trauma informed 5 Emotionally focused 1

A friend or a counsellor telling you that you are not a monster helps, and it only takes you so far. The shame usually sits with one particular person, and it eases most when that person hears the thing and stays.

So aim a disclosure carefully rather than widely. Choose the person the shame is actually about, pick a moment with room in it, and say the small…

Twenty minutesShameEmotionally focusedQur’an 66:8