How do you fix emotional burnout?

What emotion are you feeling right now? 

Happy, sad, angry, lonely?

What happens if your emotions get stuck in your body?

 

Nine times out of ten when I talk with clients and group members about body image and emotional eating, the conversation comes back to emotional coping. Especially if the person didn't learn how to express emotions as a child or it wasn't safe to express difficult emotions.

 

Have you read Atlas of The Heart by Dr. Brene Brown?

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According to research by Dr. Brene Brown, most people are aware of only 4 emotions happy, sad, angry, and lonely.

 

This limited vocabulary to describe what you feel can keep difficult emotions stuck in your body and limit opportunities for human connection and vulnerability. 

 

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My guest in this episode is Meghan Thomas the host of the Emotional Expedition Podcast. 

 

Meghan shares how her personal experience with medical trauma lead her to research how emotions can get stuck in the body to create dis-ease. 

 

We discuss how this quote by Brene Brown applies to Meghan's story and her work:

 

"When we name an emotion or an experience, it doesn't give that emotion or experience more power, it gives us more power."

 

Meghan explains how trauma and emotions get stuck in your body when you don't have the tools to move the emotions through your body. This can lead to emotional coping with food, food guilt, and body shame.

 

Meghan offers strategies that can help women in midlife connect, process, and move through difficult emotions like stress, emotional overwhelm, and burnout.

 

Meghan Thomas is the host of the Emotional Expedition Podcast. Her podcast was born out of the many challenges she has experienced in her life and her understanding that emotions and trauma get stuck in the body. Releasing those stuck emotions first starts with the awareness of what we are feeling in the first place and then doing the work to move it through the body. 

 

Links:

website: https://www.meghanthomas.com

podcast: https://www.meghanthomas.com/podcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emotional_expedition/

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