Episode 211: You’ve got to feel it to heal it

This is an old psychotherapy saw: "you've got to feel it to heal
it." So what does it really mean? I'm not quite sure how it
works, but unprocessed emotions don't really go away. They exist
in a kind of frozen state somewhere beneath the threshold of
awareness. To relieve oneself of their burden, it's necessary to
experience their affective component with awareness. In fact, you
can think of feeling as the subjective experience of an emotion
leaving the body. I'll discuss more in this episode.


#feeling #emotions #trauma