Have you ever asked yourself why a particular commercial elicits a reaction from you?
Today’s show is about emotional recognition. What are the things that you have a visceral emotional response to?
I talk about how to use your emotional recognition to guide you through healing, how to recognize emotional experiences, grieving and how to avoid the collision between present and past experiences in your current moment. I also share a personal story about how I discovered, or in this case, “decoded” my own emotional recognition.
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“When it is you, it is so much less obvious than when it is someone else.” – Terri Cole
Show Notes:
Why does a commercials elicit a reaction
What is emotional recognition
What provokes our emotional response
Do you have the emotional recognition experience?
How to deal with the past
What your emotional recognition can tell you
“There is no one and done grief.” – Terri Cole
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“If it causes you pain, then it needs your attention.” – Terri Cole
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Hi Terri,
I just found you through Miriam Schulman’s podcast. Thank you for so much valuable information. In this episode you mentioned people who cry if they are angry, or during confrontation, even happy tears. That’s me. I can’t even talk when that happens. Did you do an episode about this situation? I’m trying to create better boundaries, and even just thinking about stating my boundaries, it makes me tear up right this minute.
Help!
Michelle
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for sharing! I’m glad you found this episode resonated for you. I would recommend checking out more of these episodes about boundary setting, and my YouTube channel that covers this topic in depth! I would specifically recommend starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQat94JARuQ&list=PLMaWdZCQtiJ-HTpPr70a6n1BuMwm9MzNm. You can absolutely get more comfortable setting boundaries – crying is a super common reaction to the fear of doing something that makes you uncomfortable. You’ve got this, and I’ll be cheering you on along the way!
My partner Unfroze my heart (that I didn’t even KNOW was frozen) just before he passed… the true gift money cannot buy. I could never/rarely cry before. Now I cry all the time everywhere.
Hi Patricia,
Thank you for sharing this and for being here ❤️ It sounds like your partner was an incredible gift to you!
Thank you Terri for sharing your story! It definitely resonated with me because my father passed away 2 years ago and this has happened to me before when I listened to certain songs.
Hi Aldys,
I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of your father.❤️ Thank you for being here, and thank you for sharing!
Resonated Terri, so true for me, listened Simon and Garfunkel, crying, linked to my Dad, stayed with it, realisation what I had with my dad, not found in others and music gives me ‘glimpses’ of him. The feeling ripples throughout my life with sadness and joy combined, the complexity revealed is so precious to me and yet sad because I rarely have someone to share this with, so your podcast is like an intimate conversation, you provide the words and my the related emotions , flow, appreciate your openness, it’s an offering recieved with thanks and appreciation. Love where to podcast is going, thanks for the journey.
Jill,
Thank you for sharing your experience and insight here with us. I so appreciate your kind words – it warms my heart to know that you “get” the podcast and that it feels intimate to you because it truly is for me. I appreciate you xo
Hi Terri,
What a great topic.This has been really helpful and I need to give this podcast a second listen. I don’t cry and feel so emotionally clogged that it’s limiting my forward movement so when I do I know I’ve struck gold. I remember going to a movie just randomly because partially I loved the theatre on west 58 th street. The movie was “Lean on Pete” about abandonment and how a young kid survives by bonding with this horse in search of his one sane and caring aunt. I sobbed the whole time and felt so much healing from all that release but this issue is still very much a part of me. There was no one there for me growing up and I was expected to be a parent to a parent so to do that you have to repress yourself and your needs to accommodate them. This develops later in life deep people pleasing, and so much imbalance from not knowing who you are. Anything or anyone that Triggers Our pain, especially our deepest, is a gift to wake us up to take notice and do more of the work. Your wound(s) have just been pierced open, do not ignore.! I’ve never had the ample supply of money to do continuous therapy especially with someone who specializes in trauma, so you make your self care a priority and just do the best you can every day. Meditation and yoga are very helpful.
Thanks again Terri!
Nina,
I am witnessing your strength, insights, and courage with so much compassion and understanding. You are clearly finding your way and YES to the healing power of yoga and meditation! xo