Coaching practices for Why Do I Numb Out or Avoid Feeling My Emotions and How Do I Stop
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- The second something gets uncomfortable I reach for the phone or the wine or just more to do, and lately I’ve noticed the good stuff has gone flat too
- I feel the jealousy or the hurt and then immediately pile on a second layer of "I shouldn’t feel this, a mature person wouldn’t"
- I keep trying to shove this feeling down or talk myself out of it, and the harder I fight it the worse it gets
- With feelings it’s all or nothing for me
- The moment a hard feeling shows up I’m already busy escaping it
Practices that may help
- Stop numbing vulnerability
Notice how you numb hard feelings — and feel them instead, because you can’t numb selectively.
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Give yourself permission to feel
Drop the judgment about whether you should or shouldn’t feel a certain way — the emotion is already there.
Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical - A — Allow the experience to be as it is
Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Stay with sensation without flooding (titrate)
Build the capacity to feel a sensation in tolerable doses instead of numbing or being swept away.
Interoception, Explained - Show up — turn toward difficult emotions
Face difficult feelings with curiosity rather than suppressing, avoiding, or being swept into them.
Emotional Agility, Made Practical - Opposite action
When an emotion doesn’t fit the facts or is unhelpful, act opposite to its urge — fully and wholeheartedly.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical - 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 - Acceptance (willingness)
Make room for unwanted feelings instead of struggling against them, so they stop running the show.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Label discomfort precisely before acting on it
Naming what kind of discomfort you feel reduces its power to drive avoidance automatically.
Embracing Discomfort: Turning Resistance Into Growth - 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
Related concerns
- Stop Avoiding Feelings
Face difficult feelings with curiosity rather than suppressing, avoiding, or being swept into them.
Show up — turn toward difficult emotions
- Emotional Acceptance
Accept that something happened without approving of it, pretending it’s fine, or treating it as deserved.
Distinguish acceptance from approval
- Emotional Avoidance
Face difficult feelings with curiosity rather than suppressing, avoiding, or being swept into them.
- How Can I Stop Feeling Emotionally Numb And Feel Like A Normal Human Being
Notice how you numb hard feelings — and feel them instead, because you can’t numb selectively.
Stop numbing vulnerability
- How Do I Deal With An Emotionally Numb Feeling
Notice how you numb hard feelings — and feel them instead, because you can’t numb selectively.
- How Do I Stop Feeling Emotionally Numb
Notice how you numb hard feelings — and feel them instead, because you can’t numb selectively.
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