Coaching practices for Emotions Stored in Body

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I can analyze my feelings all day long, but it stays in my head and never actually moves through me
• I feel it in my body before my head catches up
• When a feeling takes over I’m just lost inside it, like it’s the whole room
• I can name what I’m feeling but it still has me by the throat
• I can talk about my feelings all day from the neck up, but the real stuff seems to be locked in my body

Practices that may help

1. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
   After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
2. Pair the word with a body location
   Name the feeling and where you sense it: "tight in the chest", "heavy in the gut".
   Affect Labeling: Name It to Tame It
3. Name what the emotion is doing in your body
   Track the physical signs of the emotion as they move through — this alone reduces their intensity.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
4. Dual labeling: name both the emotion word and its body location
   Follow an emotion word with its body location: "Anxiety — tight chest and held breath."
   Name It to Tame It: Affect Labeling in Practice
5. Tracking shadow material through the body
   Notice where in the body suppressed reactions live — tension, constriction, or deadness are somatic shadow clues.
   Shadow Work
6. Read bodily signals as information
   Treat tension, energy dips, and gut feelings as data about needs and emotions, not just noise.
   Interoception, Explained
7. Observe the emotion without feeding it
   When a strong emotion hits, watch it without adding the story that keeps it going.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
8. Reading the body as a self-knowledge instrument
   Treat physical sensations in the moment as data about what is actually happening inside you.
   Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
9. Allow the body to complete its response
   Make room for spontaneous shaking, trembling, deep breaths, or movement that wants to happen.
   Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained
10. Track body sensation (the felt sense)
    Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
    Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained

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