Acknowledging your feelings is a practice well worth engaging in if you want to live a more meaningful life and enjoy strong relationships.

Acknowledging your feelings is a fundamental aspect of emotional well-being and personal growth. It involves recognizing, accepting, and understanding your emotions, whether they are positive or negative.

Enjoy this episode with your host Aurora where she dives deep and finds ways to share easy tools with you that will support your journey to more confidence and increased well-being.

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• Acknowledging and managing emotions. 0:03
• Aurora encourages listeners to acknowledge and embrace their feelings, rather than numbing or controlling them.
• Emotional awareness and acceptance. 1:08
• Sensitive person acknowledges emotions, learns to embrace them instead of suppressing them.
• Offering one-on-one coaching and group classes to help people navigate their emotions and find inner peace.
• Managing emotions through self-awareness and expression. 5:06
• Speaker shares personal journey with anxiety and depression, learns to cope through self-awareness and expression.
• Speaker embracing emotions, expressing them, and distinguishing between triggers and authentic feelings to regulate nervous system and respond maturely.
• Suppressing emotions and their consequences. 8:59
• Suppressing emotions can lead to unhealthy reactions and disconnection from oneself and others.
• Self-awareness and personal growth. 12:00
• Speaker 1 emphasizes importance of self-awareness for personal growth and fulfilling relationships.
• Speaker 1 seeks to help others discover themselves through self-love and authenticity.

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Hello and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

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your host Aurora, life coach and companion on this beautiful

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journey called life. I hope you're doing well. I hope you

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feel good and your skin help you feel safe and relaxed. I help

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you feel seen, held loved. At the same time free and wild

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energy don't feel all these beautiful, fluffy unicorn

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rainbow feelings. I hope I can bring you some peace. I hope I

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can bring you some clarity and tranquility and just goodness

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and value. Today I want to talk about acknowledging your

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feelings. All too often I hear that people say I wish I was

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numb. I wish I didn't have feelings. I feel so controlled

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by my feelings. If it is anxiety, or if it is deep, sad

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feelings or if it is anger, frustration. I just wish I was

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just numb and had no feelings. And I just say oh my god, how

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boring would life be? And yeah, I must admit at times I I was

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praying to not be as sensitive as I am. But it is also a

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superpower. And I know it sounds very cliche and very new agey.

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But if you didn't have feelings, it would be very hard for you to

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enjoy life and to feel alive and to make connections to feel a

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sense of belonging. Because it is through our emotions that we

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or most of us experience life. So acknowledging our emotions,

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instead of trying to get rid of them, which is not possible at

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all is a way wiser and more efficient way of spending your

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time and energy. Because I for the longest time tried to

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suppress feelings of deep anger and deep sadness, deep

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frustration, deep feeling of disconnection and anxiety. And I

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tried to run away from it distract myself from a bypass

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acid full on bypassing my my feelings and it just didn't

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work. And I'm here for you to save some time because I want to

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say that I lost a good decade on trying to escape on on my

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feelings as a deep introvert and sensitive person. And yeah, with

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my podcast with my years experience where you can meet me

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for one on one coaching where you can join me for intimacy

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classes with your partner, where you can experience one on one

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yoga, or public yoga classes where I guide you through deeply

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restorative classes that will absolutely blow your soul away

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is my way to try to provide people with a shortcut because

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basically everything I'm offering right now is what I

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wish I had back then in my 20s when I felt so lost and

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disconnected and just Yeah, somewhat miserable at times

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happy but mostly depressed and anxious and in a state of

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escaping. So acknowledging your feelings is really one of the

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biggest start points that you can really make a difference in

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your life in feeling your feelings that are coming up and

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maybe you can also sense them in on a physical level in your

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body. Right you may be feel hot, or you feel sensations in your

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belly you feel your breath is getting shallow or on a mental

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level you feel like a cascade of thoughts running rushing through

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your brain and all kinds of stuff that you want to say and

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write say out loud or throw at the other person. So there is

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markers So to say, that can help you identify when a feeling

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comes up. And I talk a lot about anxiety with with my clients.

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And depression, especially when, you know, fall is coming up now

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and then winter and the winters in Canada are fairly long and

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cold. But even in Germany or the UK, where I have listeners

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living like it gets really gloomy and dark in winter, and

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we can sometimes fall into many winter depression or full on

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winter depression. And if we learn to observe these seasons,

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if we know that certain feelings are going to come up,

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seasonally, or because certain situations or people trigger us

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in a certain way, we can hack into that emotional default

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system, so to say, and learn to cope with our feelings in a

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different way than we might be used to. And that's a very

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interesting path to be on. And I'm still on that path I've not,

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you know, fully healed, and I'm still growing and learning and

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healing. But that path to make sense of my emotions and to

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express how I feel, and to know that the way I feel might not be

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convenient in a certain situation, or for another person

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outside of myself. But that is perfectly fine. You need to

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embrace how you feel, and make sense of it, by expressing them,

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maybe even writing them out, and then choosing to express them to

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the outside world. And it is only then that the outside world

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can understand who you are and see who you are. And it helps

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you to feel a sense of belonging and connection. But it also

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helps people to see how they want to treat you in the future.

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The more you engage in that practice of acknowledging your

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feelings and being like, how do you say that in English?

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Discerning, yeah, distinguishing between this as a trigger, and

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I'm reacting and feeling out of a place of victimhood because of

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an old wound that hasn't healed yet, or I'm feeling this way

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because this is who I am. And the trick is to be brutally

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honest with yourself and very self aware that sometimes you

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get triggered and feel certain emotions because of an old wound

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that hasn't been properly processed now. And then you can

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regulate your nervous system and react and or respond to a

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situation more maturely. And then there might be situations

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where there is a strong feeling of be it justice, anger, fear

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coming up, and it's very appropriate and it's actually

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there to protect you and others. So for you to distinguish, okay,

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feelings are coming up, I can feel it in my body. What is it?

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Is it an old anxiety, an old feeling of not being enough? of,

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you know, having been bullied in the past? And now I feel

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insecure and social gatherings? Or is it an emotion that is

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absolutely valid? I need to acknowledge it, and then express

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it to the people around me to either set boundaries or have

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them know what I'm all about. The more you suppress emotions,

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the more you decide to not acknowledge emotions, the

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weirder you and like weird, a disconnected actually totally

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disconnected from yourself, you will feel and from other people

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as well. And your emotions that you suppress will find a super

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awkward and the most unconvenient timing to still

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come out. Right.

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We see that often with people who suppress anger and

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frustration and really friendships, especially romantic

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relationships, they feel frustrated with something that

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their partner does or doesn't do. They decide to not

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acknowledge these feelings and thoughts and not to express it.

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And the next thing you know, there is something happening

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that sets them off. And then they react disproportionally to

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a situation where you just think, Oh, my God, like, What a

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lunatic. Why is that person exploding right now, this is so

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minor. And yeah, it might not be minor for everybody. But this

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reaction is totally unhealthy and not cool. And it is because

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for an extended time before that explosion, emotions have been

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suppressed. And we do that not consciously, we do that most of

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the time, because we feel that the way we feel is not valid to

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express maybe in your use in your childhood, you consciously

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or subconsciously learned that your feelings the way you

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perceive the world is not valid, you are an inconvenience, you

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should shut the fuck up and sit quietly in your chair, and not

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shout, shout or show any emotions. And you will carry

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those messages that you received from caregivers back then or

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siblings or what not that this is now your way how you behave

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and act, deal with emotion emotions. And to get behind that

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to understand okay, there is feelings coming up and choosing

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not to express them. I know though the consequences are not

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awesome. So let's move forward, let's learn something new, let's

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process what's going on here and learn to either express to

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ourselves what's going on, or to the outside world. And this is

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how you could create new neural pathways that are completely

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brand new. And neural pathways are ways of thinking, right, we

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all have ways of thinking. And some people are more rigid than

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others. And the people that are most flexible, have many

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different kinds of neuro pathways and create new neural

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pathways on a regular basis by learning new things and new

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tricks and languages. or visiting foreign countries, but

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also by reacting differently to an old trigger. So all this

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being said, it is extremely important that you make sense of

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how you feel that you know yourself, the better you know

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yourself, the better you know, your values, your boundaries,

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your patterns, your dark side, read your side where you feel

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triggered and depressed and anxious. But also your powerful

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side, the more you know, how you tick and function, the better

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decisions you're going to make. And the more fulfilled life you

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will have. And this will have an extreme awesome ripple effect.

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And affect the people right around you, the people that you

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love the people that you care about the people in your

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community. And it's just a beautiful journey to be on to

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getting to know yourself. And this is what my mission and my

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purpose and my vision is to help people wake up to themselves and

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make decisions that make them feel alive and authentic. And

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yeah, I think if if we would all love ourselves and know

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ourselves a little more, this world could be a pretty, pretty

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awesome place in the future. And I want to make sure that I

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contribute a little bit to that movement add to that trend to

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