You've made it through an entire season on emotions. You know there's no such thing as a bad feeling. You know your feelings are information. You know you've been suppressing things for years.
Now what?
In this season finale, Alyssa gets practical. No more theory — just the four-step process she uses with her clients every single day to help you actually feel what you're feeling without it becoming a beach ball to the face.
She also walks through a story that will sound uncomfortably familiar. Monday's dishes that didn't get done. Tuesday's meeting where someone took credit for your work. Wednesday's meltdown in the pickup line. Thursday's 4am wake-up. And then on Thursday evening, your husband innocently asks if you can make spaghetti for dinner — and you absolutely lose it.
The explosion was never about spaghetti. It was everything that stacked up all week while you kept pushing through, ignoring the signals, and telling yourself it wasn't a big deal.
Your body was talking to you all week long. You just weren't taught to listen.
In this episode:
The takeaway: Notice one body sensation today. That's it. You don't have to know what it means yet. You don't have to fix it or trace it back to childhood. You just notice it. That is the beginning of all of this. And if that feels like too much, go to the bathroom. Drink some water. Put on house shoes. Get under a soft blanket. One small thing that makes you feel just noticeably different. That's the healing.
Chapters
00:04 Wrapping up season two — and getting practical
00:38 The four-step process to feel your feelings without overwhelm
01:13 Why going slow is the actual strategy
02:31 What to do if \"where do you feel it?\" makes no sense to you
06:55 Step one: notice body sensations — where to start
11:32 External sensations — the things others can see
14:04 Internal sensations — the things only you feel
19:24 The SUDS scale — catching emotions before they hit a 10
22:23 The spaghetti story — Monday through Thursday
30:20 Every signal you missed all week
34:09 Step three: validate
34:57 How we constantly invalidate ourselves — and what to say instead
40:12 Step four: do the next best thing for yourself
41:23 What to do when you don't even know what you need
42:50 It doesn't have to be a grand gesture — just noticeably different
44:42 Circle back: notice how you feel after
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