Healthy Ways to Unpack Thoughts and Emotions

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(BONUS EPISODE 1) Unlock the secrets to understanding and expressing your emotions effectively with our latest bonus episode. Dive into the world of emotional vocabulary and discover how to articulate your feelings beyond the surface level. We promise you'll learn to navigate life's uncontrollable moments with grace and clarity. This episode is packed with practical exercises, starting with the simple yet powerful question: "What is going on with me?" By using tools like the feeling wheel, you'll expand your emotional lexicon, allowing for more precise and meaningful self-expression. Whether through conversation or writing, you'll gain insights into preventing emotional overload and maintaining inner peace.

Join us as we guide you through the process of unpacking emotions healthily, ensuring that you don't internalize feelings that could lead to emotional outbursts. By writing down your true emotions using descriptive words, you create a sanctuary of self-expression, even if an immediate supportive environment isn't available. As you reflect on your emotions and triggers, freely letting thoughts flow on paper, you'll confront and manage your feelings constructively. Until our next episode, remember that kindness towards yourself and others is paramount. Tune in and transform how you process your thoughts amidst life's challenges.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Hello there, how are you on today?
I hope you're having awonderful day so far.
And this is a bonus episode,and this is the episode where I
will show you how you canprocess your thoughts when
things are happening that youcannot control.

(01:02):
So this is an activity bonusepisode.
So get out your paper and pen,let's get to it.
So how can you process yourthoughts when things are
happening that you cannotcontrol?
First, I want you to understandthat thinking is good.
It is good to process yourthoughts when you are, you know,

(01:24):
going through things.
When things are not going, whenthings are good, when things
are bad, it is good to processyour thoughts.
So let's get to the first thingthat you are to do Write down
this question what is going onwith me?
What is going on with me?
What is going on with me?
And when you answer thisquestion, it needs to be feeling

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words.
Feeling words are so importantand I know that most people have
basic feeling words like mad,glad, sad.
But it is so good if we canstart learning more feeling

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words.
If you want to learn morefeeling words, you can Google
the feeling wheel, the feelingwheel.
It will have a chart of so manyfeeling words that you can
actually learn like depressed,thoughtful, intimate, trusting,
scared, submissive, anxious,confused, hostile, lonely,

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peaceful, responsive, detached,sleepy, thankful, confident,
optimistic, thankful, confident,optimistic, fascinating,
overwhelmed, embarrassed,insignificant, discouraged,
embarrassed.
So it's many, many words onthis feeling word and it's good

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to know what is going on withyou, with strong feeling words
because when people ask uswhat's going on with you, we can
tell them a feeling word,because that feeling word will
be able to just actually speakfor you.
So it's good to have morefeeling words and, like I said

(03:19):
before, if you want to know morefeeling words, just Google the
feeling wheel W-H-E-E-L.
So the question that you are tofirst answer is what is going on
with me With some feeling words?
Okay, because I do want you tobe able to express your feelings

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, express your thoughts.
So if you say I am frustrated,okay, what is making you
frustrated?
What got you frustrated?
And that's when you startexpressing frustrated thoughts,
because sometimes people do youknow, express themselves

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emotionally.
So sometimes you will starttalking and, depending on if
you're talking in the heat ofthe moment or in the midst of
the problem, then, yes, thatfrustration is going to show up,
you know, through your thoughts.
So make sure that you aresomewhere where you can have a

(04:25):
safe space to speak what youneed to speak.
But just in case you do nothave a safe space, you can most
definitely write down thesethings on paper, because they
tend to flow out easier whenyou're writing them down anyway.
So this is the first thing to doask yourself what is going on

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with you with feeling words.
And when you write down thatfeeling word, I want you to ask
yourself what got me?
Whatever that feeling word is,you know, and just spill, spill
it out on the paper.
Okay, because this is the wayof how you can process those

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thoughts and those feelings.
Instead of internalizingbecause internalizing your
feelings does not work Allyou're going to do is just pack
it, pack it, pack it on theinside and next thing, you know
you're going to explode and,baby, it ain't no telling what
you're going to be looking likewhen you explode.
It ain't no telling you'regoing to explode and, baby, it
ain't no telling what you'regoing to be looking like when
you explode.
It ain't no telling what'sgoing to happen.

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So be mindful of that, that youare not internalizing your
thoughts and feelings, all right.
So until you get to the nextepisode.
Be kind to yourself as well asto others.