Coaching practices for How to Get in Touch with Your 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
• A feeling slams into me and I have no idea where it came from or why it’s this big
• There’s this feeling sitting in me and I can feel it in my body, but I don’t really get what it’s about or what it wants from me, and I want to get curious about it instead of just analyzing myself.
• When a feeling takes over I’m just lost inside it, like it’s the whole room

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. 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.
3. 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
4. Understand the function of the emotion
   Every emotion evolved because it does something useful — learn what yours is trying to do.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Self-awareness
   Notice your emotions as they arise and recognize how they shape your judgment and behavior.
   Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical
9. Relax and release stuck energy
   When emotion grips, consciously relax and let the energy move through instead of clamping down.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
10. Riding the emotion wave with anicca awareness
    When a strong emotion hits, track it through its full arc — notice it peak and fall without fleeing or amplifying.
    Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence

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