Dealing with meta-emotions

• Painful emotions are not toxic or dangerous, they are human nature.
• Allow yourself to feel, don't fight it. Those emotions gotta flow through.
• Do self-soothing stuff like deep breathing, baths, walks to cope when emotions get intense.
• Name those feelings and remem...

Allow yourself to feel your feelings, so you don’t spend more energy avoiding them than you would on feeling them. This way you can focus on the situation, fully experience the feelings and maybe better understand why it hurts and what to do about it.

Research also indicates that ...

Ignoring feelings (like "stuffing your anger") is not the healthiest way to deal with them. generally speaking, that does not make them go away but can cause them to come out in different ways. That’s because your emotions act as signals to you that what you are doing in your life is or isn’t wor...