Coaching practices for How to Be More in Touch with My Emotions

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• I run on autopilot from morning till I crash at night, and if you stopped me midday and asked how I’m feeling I’d genuinely have no idea
• When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
• I’ll snap at someone or make a bad call and only realize hours later that I was already in a mood the whole time
• When I’m upset I’m completely fused with the story
• I’m stuck at one of two extremes with hard feelings

Practices that may help

1. Regular emotional check-in
   Set aside a few minutes each day to honestly ask what you are actually feeling right now.
   Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical
2. Mindfulness of the current emotion
   Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
3. Self-awareness
   Notice your emotions as they arise and recognize how they shape your judgment and behavior.
   Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical
4. Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical
   Naming and honestly expressing what you feel — rather than suppressing, masking, or performing emotions — is linked to lower physiological stress, better relationships, and more effective self-regulation. Decades of research on expressive writing and emotional disclosure support the general principle, though effects are modest and depend heavily on how disclosure is done.
5. O — Observe: Notice What Is Actually Happening
   After the stop, observe the situation, your emotions, and your urges — without judgment and without acting on them.
   The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments
6. Mindful awareness of suffering
   Hold painful feelings in balanced awareness — neither suppressing them nor being swept away by them.
   Self-Compassion, Made Practical
7. Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
   When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
8. 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
9. I — Investigate with gentle, curious attention
   Bring kind curiosity to the emotion: Where is it in the body? What does it most need?
   RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
10. 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

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