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Do you ever struggle with snapping at your kids or working too much? Do you feel like all you do is never enough? Are guilt and stress a nagging voice you can't shut off?
Welcome home. Here we address the root cause of these overwhelming emotions by using proven mindfulness based processes to help you understand and communicate your emotions. Why?
Research consistently shows that emotional suppression and poor emotional regulation impact every aspect of our well-being.
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Are you feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or constantly stressed? Do you find yourself reacting impulsively to situations or carrying around a burden of guilt? It's time to take a step back and discover the transformative power of mindfulness-based practices to support your emotional well-being. The wisdom and information you discover here comes from lived experience, academic knowledge, research, and intuitive insights.
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Unaddressed feelings create tension, showing up as irritability, resentment, anger, and conflict. Emotional suppression not only affects mental and emotional well-being but also causes physically symptoms like headaches, insomnia, and fatigue, as the body struggles to manage the ongoing stress caused by emotional repression and the brain continues to process unaddressed emotions in the background.
The solution to breaking this cycle lies in honoring emotions through mindfulness-based practices.
Irritability and the Impacts of Unexpressed Emotions
Emotional Suppression in Daily Life
Suppressed Emotions and Guilt
Snapping at your children, arguing with a partner, feeling irritated with work, and feeling guilty are clear indicators of burnout caused by emotional suppression. Suppressing emotions like stress and frustration leads to an accumulation of unresolved feelings that eventually explode in everyday interactions. Research shows that when emotions are consistently pushed down, they lead to emotional exhaustion, making it harder to stay patient and calm, particularly with family members.
Suppressed emotions often rear their head in situations that might not seem significant but trigger us with explosive reactions. If you feel you've overreacted to seemingly small events (spills, messes, anxiety rushing out the door, or yelling at bed time) you are most likely experiencing the result of long-term emotional buildup. Emotional suppression also compounds guilt. Studies show that unresolved guilt leads to chronic stress and anxiety, further contributing to burnout and a sense of failure.
What Research Tells Us About Suppressing Our Emotions
What is Emotional Suppression?
Emotional Suppression
Emotional suppression is the conscious or unconscious process of suppressing or avoiding the honoring or expression of emotions, especially negative or difficult ones, such as anger, sadness, or fear. Instead of acknowledging and processing these feelings, a person might shove them down or bottle them up, either to avoid discomfort or because they believe expressing emotions is wrong or unacceptable.
Common ways to avoid or numb the feelings are:
Over time, this suppression can lead to emotional buildup, which may show up as stress, anxiety, frustration, or emotional outbursts. It's a common coping mechanism, but one that often hinders emotional well-being, relationships, and personal growth in the long run.
Common ways to avoid or numb the feelings are:
- Overwork
- Scrolling
- Shopping
- Food
- Attachment to achievements or goals,
- Perfectionism
- People pleasing (putting other's needs in front of your own)
- And not acknowledging your emotions with comments like "I'm fine."
Over time, this suppression can lead to emotional buildup, which may show up as stress, anxiety, frustration, or emotional outbursts. It's a common coping mechanism, but one that often hinders emotional well-being, relationships, and personal growth in the long run.
How Mindfulness-Based Practices Can Help You
Emotional reactivity and overwhelm can disrupt both your professional and personal life. In your career, emotional suppression can lead to impulsive decisions, conflicts, decreased productivity, and burnout. As a mother, they can affect your ability to be present and patient with your children. Mindfulness helps you manage stress, improve emotional regulation, and release suppressed emotions so you can make thoughtful decisions, leading to a more balanced, fulfilling life at work and home.
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When life feels chaotic and overwhelming, stress and anxiety can quickly build up, leading to feelings of burnout and guilt for not being able to keep up. Mindfulness practices, like guided meditation, offer a way to pause, breathe, and regain control, helping you move from feeling frazzled to calm and centered. These techniques help reduce stress, providing the clarity and calm you need to tackle your challenges without feeling constantly overwhelmed.
If you often find yourself reacting emotionally—snapping at loved ones, feeling frustrated at work, or carrying guilt for your reactions—mindfulness can help. By teaching you to observe your emotions without getting swept away by them, (as I say "see them, don't be them") mindfulness enables you to respond more thoughtfully which can reduce feelings of guilt. This shift leads to more harmonious relationships and a greater sense of inner peace.
During childhood, many of us didn’t have our emotional needs met. Phrases like "Cry and I’ll give you something to cry about" show how emotions were often dismissed. As a result, we learned early on that our emotions were undeserving of attention or unworthy of being expressed. We began to suppress our feelings as much as possible, until eventually, they built up and led to emotional outbursts. This cycle leaves us living with anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, guilt, overwhelm, and other emotions, believing our feelings don’t matter and without tools to honor and express our emotions.
Emotional suppression takes a serious toll on our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. However, you have the power to change this. By healing emotional suppression, you can transform your life. Get started today with a free quiz to begin your healing journey and move toward a happier, healthier you.
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