Trust your body's wisdom | Sally 04 | In Therapy with Alex Howard

[@lyndabarlow2298]

"How do I feel? And how do I feel about how I feel?" I am doing ok with the first part of that, but the second part is something I need to focus on too.

[@lisadennys6045]

So real and so valuable to build this skill of tuning into your body and feelings all the time. Especially I appreciated the question of “how do you feel about how you’re feeling?” That has been a stressful stumbling block for me of getting angry at myself for being stressed and frustrated with my health status , yet again! As I gradually create more space for these secondary feeling layers, I have been able to ease up on myself and my frequent self-rejection of how I’m feeling, a bit at a time. Part of my perfection pattern is erroneously thinking that I should be this serene chronically ill person and not be an angry person at times! I seem to have had such a narrow band of expectation about what I had judged to be acceptable or not in breadth and frequency of ‘ negative’ feelings. I so appreciate these videos to bring honesty & awareness to these topics that no one else seems to talk about!

[@rebeccaledam7544]

I so agree with this, especially reacting on my primary emotions negatively. I'm been working a lot with being ok with all that is, and it really takes time to unlearn old patterns ❤

[@eliseh7872]

I’ve never thought about my emotional body having its own innate wisdom before - that really helps when facing the ‘black abyss’ of emotions that I resonate with Sally on, to trust that there’s a guiding light, a way through and something on the other side!

[@truthprevails7085]

Excellent. One of the things that sticks with me is when you said, the more resistance there is to meditation, the more there is a need for me to do it. Also true with emotional work...feeling the the grief of family members that passed...did grieve when they passed, but then dumbed down the sadness that came from memories that would have brought healing tears....but oh no, that would just stuff up my nose. Haha....more stuffed nose days lately. Feels good. Definitely relate to her not showing her true feelings for years. Thanks to you both!

[@spiritualitywithzoe]

Another amazing episode and it's so brilliant to see that Sally is improving :) I'm really rooting for all these participants

[@emmaclaireisherwood]

Thank you to Alex and Sally for these therapy sessions, they are really helpful in getting in touch with your emotions 🤔

[@inaraykova]

She seems like a very sweet person and there were some great nuggets of CFS wisdom in there as usual

[@kimokeeffe8838]

Augh. A lot of this hit home. Brilliant work and Sally’s progress is just wonderful to see!

[@kateduggleby6161]

Thank you Alex....😊

[@colleenbarham6567]

Sally's honesty is powerful,to connect with this platform I can personally identify with how I have been struggling dealing with difficult emotions.. This is very helpful as I begin this learning curve of finding how to trust my feelings to be able to heal my emotional and physical body. To reflect and understand that we do have an innate wisdom within is strengthening. This has given me increased courage to build confidence to find awareness that I can trust in this process. I am actually amazed to discover that truly feeling the pain in a safe way using the tools of meditation, deep breathing in a gentle and kind way is liberating.

[@ForViewingOnly]

These video are inspiring and helpful. Thank you Alex, and thank you to these amazing people who are sharing their progress so honestly.

[@icascone]

The good but also scary bit is that things than change around people we know... Some people do definitely need to go lol but my fear is that than our loved one's for at least a short while they will see a new person... However in the long run is better for everyone involved...?

[@rileyreads]

If I'm a 9 on the Enneagram and I avoid conflict and stuff my anger to do so...can that be changed? Does a healthy 9 not stuff their anger?

[@liorsmith]

I listen to my body, but since I don't have care support I often have to push through in order to ensure I eat. I've been too sick to get care support even though I've been trying for almost a year now. I've given myself a break from trying recently but I think I'll start trying again; having that support in place I believe would help so much in not having to push myself. But it requires pushing to get there! I also feel out my emotions - that ball of string has been unravelling for some time now! I don't push this process away, but it can be very draining anyway, and there's no set end date for this process.