Validation is hard and needed to deescalate fights and engage in deep connection.

To process emotions, our bodies, thoughts, and emotions must all be integrated.

Self-reflection through journaling is a powerful tool to help you engage emotions, deepen your life experience, and even improve relationship with others.

Shame is teaching us something, if we can endure the lesson. Instead of running from our shame, we need to learn from our shame.

Counterintuitively, rather than “controlling” our emotions, we need to let our emotions out.

Rather than using the mind to regulate the emotions, we need to use our body to regulate emotions…

You can get to the place where you can breathe again, where you can trust yourself again, and can settle into your body