Normalizing Emotions

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Hey friends, are you someone who does not like it? Do you wish everybody could be happy with you all the time? That's me too. And so I want to share with you what you can do to help yourself to be comfortable when people are mad at you and to be comfortable when not when everybody's not happy. I want to begin by telling you, did you know your job isn't to make sure that everybody's happy all the time? That's cool.

Actually, all you have to worry about is you. Your job isn't to control how everybody else feels. They're allowed to feel however they feel and you're allowed to feel how you feel.

It can be really uncomfortable to watch somebody else get upset or feel sad. And if you're like me, you might want to help them to feel better. And that's where we get to remind ourselves.

You can think it in your head, you can say it out loud, or you can write it down. You can say, I'm allowed to be happy even when other people aren't. Or you can say, I'm allowed to be sad even when other people aren't.

I don't have to be happy just because they're happy and they don't have to be happy just because I'm happy. You can write down or tell yourself or think. People feel all different sorts of emotions and we're all allowed to feel our own emotions.

And as people feel those emotions and you start to feel really uncomfortable, you can remind yourself of these things that I was just saying and you can start to take some deep breaths to help your body to feel a little bit more settled when other people are feeling big emotions around you that you just don't feel comfortable with. So let's practice right now. If you watch the video about breath work, then you're going to know how to do this.

But if you didn't watch that yet, then I'm going to show you one time first and then you can join me. All right. We're going to breathe in through our nose.

We're going to hold that breath for six seconds and then we're going to breathe out slowly through our mouth. Ready? All right. Now do it with me.

Okay. So you can do that several times. You can do that for a minute, two minutes, three minutes while everybody else is feeling their big emotions, whether they're sad or they're angry, start to take your deep breaths.

Now, if somebody's angry and you feel like very uncomfortable, you can always step into a different room. Even if somebody's really happy and you just feel sad, you can step into another room too. You're allowed as long as it's okay with the grownups that you're around, you're allowed to walk away, but don't just walk away.

Take some deep breaths. Help your body by reminding yourself, remember, the thoughts that you think affect how you feel. So remind yourself, I'm allowed to feel things that other people don't feel and they're allowed to feel things that I don't feel right now.

Everybody is allowed to feel their own emotions and we don't all have to feel the same emotion at the same time. There are many other things you can do to help yourself if you're somebody who just wants everybody to be happy and you get really uncomfortable with other people and their emotions, especially when their emotions feel really big. And if you want more tips, you want more help, then when you message me and you tell me what you're practicing and how this is going for you, then you can also tell me, I want more tips, I want more help in this area and I'll be glad to help you.

So go ahead and start practicing some of this and send me a video and let me know how it's going. Speaking out those affirmations to yourself or writing them down and then doing the breath work and getting yourself more comfortable with other people's emotions when they're not the same as yours and your emotions that aren't the same as theirs. I'm really proud of you.

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[Ending] We've come to the end. What did you think about what you heard? I hope that there's something you pull from today's episode and start implementing it into your life. Create the change that you want to see, the change that you hear about.

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I hope that you have a wonderful week, but no matter what your week is like, in the moments that are quiet, maybe it's when you pillow your head at night or when you're driving in the car or taking a walk, or maybe it's going to be in the midst of the chaos with your children or the craziness of work. I hope that you'll remember how significant you are, that there is meaning and value to your life and that I for one am so glad that you're alive. 

Catch you again next week.