🤷🏼‍♀️ The ink disappeared just in time 👉 Here are some top tips for dealing with painful emotion ⬇️ ♥️ Feel free to share @drjulie • Get to know what your blocking behaviours are. These are the things we do, often without even thinking about it, to numb ourselves. For example, sometimes the first sign of emotional pain is that you are hinting through the fridge for something sweet, or you put off everything else to binge watch tv. Once we build our awareness of how we numb, we can more easily spot when we are struggling. • It seems counterintuitive to think about welcoming all emotions because our instinct is to push them away. But when we turn toward emotion with curiosity, we no longer need to waste energy fighting it. • Turning towards it means allowing it to be here. To feel the sensations it brings. And to soothe ourselves as it passes. • Self-soothing can be anything that helps you to feel safe and comforted in the moment, without costing you dearly in the long term. • Finding words to describe how you feel no writing it down is a helpful way to get some distance from it and see emotions for what they are; an experience washing over you that is temporary. More on this in my No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling book, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? (Currently -50% off @ £7.50 inc delivery see link in bio). Filled with insights from therapy about how to deal with real life problems. If don’t want to read it and would like me to read it to you, it’s free when you sign up to Audible link in my bio 😉