You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.

How do emotions work in sport to make us win or lose, or just to motivate us to participate? Psychologist, Thomas Nordhagen talks about the role that attachment and identity play in driving us to run, ski or swim as fast as we can and what it means to athletes when they are no longer able to compete.

Why on earth would we want to engage with emotional pain when it can hurt so much? and how come it is so difficult to locate where emotional pain is in the body? Psychologist and Emotion Focused Therapist, Ashley White, explains why it might be useful to ask yourself, ‘Where is the pain’ in order to process difficult emotions.

Dr Anna Robinson talks about the challenge of being either hypo- or hypersensitive in a neuro-typical world and dispels some of the myths about the emotional experience of autistic people. Anna describes how activism has helped to depathologize autism and contributed to advancing changes in the nature of emotionally therapeutic support.

How are shame and anger connected? In this episode Dr Leslie Greenberg speaks of shame as ‘the most painful emotion’ and describes how the experience of feeling worthless can interact with anger. Listen in to find out how an understanding of this interaction might be helpful in changing difficult experiences of both shame and anger and our relationship to both these emotions.

The second of two episodes exploring the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people and what might be useful in the therapeutic space. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their experience of working with gender and sexual minorities.

The second of two episodes exploring the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people and what might be useful in the therapeutic space. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their experience of working with gender and sexual minorities.

The first of two episodes exploring Minority Stress and the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their own lived experience of growing up as ‘other’ in a heteronormative and cisnormative world.

How are you going to celebrate Emotion Awareness Day? And why do we need such a day in the first place? In this episode Robert Elliott talks about the benefits of emotion awareness and also shares a poem they wrote expressly to celebrate this day.

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’? Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’? Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

Growing from a dependent infant into a well adjusted adult is a long and complicated process, according to Dr Mirisse Foroughe, and young people need the opportunity to learn to handle life’s hardships and experience difficult emotions. In this episode Mirisse shares some of what she has learnt from over 20 years’ experience riding the emotional rollercoaster with children, adolescents and their families.

This episode looks at the importance of psychotherapists working on their own emotional process. Marco Mendes tells the story of his own experience of shame in the course of training as an Emotion Focused Therapist and describes the impact of one small moment during his training in transforming the pain of his shame.

When we have unfinished business with significant people in our lives it seems logical that these people should be involved in working things out so we can move on. However, in this episode, Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone explains how associated persistent and difficult emotional experiences related to others can be worked through all by ourselves.

When there is trouble in the world we often feel lost, despairing and helpless to do anything about it. Our emotions run high and it’s hard to give ourselves a break from it. In this episode Shari Geller talks us through a mindful practice that is designed to give us just that. It is an opportunity for us to be kind to ourselves.

Have you had the experience of the same old difficult feeling coming up again and again, even though you thought you’d worked things out? In this episode Aksel Inge Sinding talks about this common experience and the emotional process that might be going on and making this happen.

What is the experience of shame and how does it differ from feeling embarrassment or guilt? Dr Shigeru Iwakabe addresses these questions as well as talking about the cultural differences in shame and its functional purpose.