Overcoming Emotional Avoidance

Gabriel and Jordan discuss the importance of acknowledging and exploring emotions in therapy, and how avoiding them can lead to exhaustion and more intense reactions in the future. They encourage listeners to embrace their emotions and work through them with a professional for a more liberating and fulfilling life.

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- How do negative experiences, such as being told at a young age or into adulthood how we should feel (e.g., feeling ashamed or not being allowed to feel sad), get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions? This was discussed in the episode How to Find & Be a Great Romantic Partner | Lori Gottlieb, the episode Emily Nagoski — The Knowledge Project #66, the episode #614: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, and the clip Embracing Pain's Gift from the episode Dr. Marc Brackett: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and the clip Permission to Feel.