Intellectualizing emotions

Processing emotions means acknowledging and dealing with your feelings in a healthy way, while bypassing emotions involves avoiding or suppressing them. Processing leads to healing, while bypassing can cause unresolved feelings to build up, potentially leading to greater emotional issues #emotions #emotionprocessing #feelings #bypassingemotions #healyourself #acceptance #movingforward #emotionalhealth #emotionalhealing #emotionalhealthmatters

Negative emotions are part of our daily lives. Rather than trying to avoid them, we should try to develop emotional intelligence and regulation skills. Building the ability to self-regulate is crucial to leadership, communication, and relationships #fmf #emotions

Emotional Regulation can be your first stride towards a WHOLE-HEARTED LIVING. Fighting and Feeling represent two ends of the emotional regulation spectrum. Balancing these approaches can lead to healthier emotional functioning and overall well-being. ✨Feeling emotions leads to greater self-awareness and understanding of personal emotional triggers and patterns. This self-awareness is essential for personal growth and development. ✨Continuously fighting or suppressing emotions can lead to…

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Intellectualizers often feel disconnected, appear calm but struggle internally, experts say.

Over-intellectualizing occurs when we focus on analyzing our emotions from a distance, at the expense of experiencing them. However, we create from our identities and our authenticity. If our identity is still tied up in old emotions then we aren’t living authentically. In order to process emotions effectively, we need to balance feeling and analyzing. Feeling emotions vs intellectualizing emotions. How do you stop intellectualizing emotions? Tune in to discover tools that will help.

I’m by no means a cognitive behavioral therapist AND it’s undeniable that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors inform one another. With that in mind, what does it mean to think our feelings? Thinking your feelings is another way of describing intellectualizing your feelings. Thinking your feelings involves creating a bit of emotional distance from your emotions and sorting them out. It gives your space to identify and label them.

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