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In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Normalizing emotions, a Staple for Emotional Intelligence.
The other day my son felt safe to share with one of his friends about the feelings of loneliness and sadness at that point which he normally doesn’t have. This led to a heart to heart conversation with him to get to the root of what had him feeling like that and also getting him to normalize these emotions.
Emotions are things that we experience every day and as we experience life, our brain makes meaning, and then we experience these emotions. We need to have a safe space to be able to express those things and to know that what we are feeling is valid.
Right now parents need to realize that our kids are facing things that the Gen Xer’s didn’t experience while growing up like the shootings in school, social media pressures and cyber bullying happening in the social media space, therefore to invalidate their feelings is to invalidate their emotions about the experience.
When people feel like their emotions don’t matter and don’t have anywhere to go then they end up making irrational decisions, so it’s important to step into their model of the world and provide them with a safe space for outlet. The reason why depression rates and anxiety rates are going up is because these people don’t have the safe spaces to be able to talk about their experiences and feelings.
When we have these safe spaces where people and our kids can open up about their feelings, this helps us see if there is a different point of view and get to the root of what is the cause of these feelings, but it all starts from normalizing what the person is feeling.
Storytelling is very therapeutic especially in a traumatic experience because it helps the body and the nervous system to process it.
People just wanna be heard, acknowledged and appreciated, and when you can give that to a person, then they're going to open up and they'll be ready and willing to hear you as well.
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Timestamps:
01:04 - The experience with my son finding safe space to share his emotion with his friend
04:04 - Validating our emotions and realizing that they are not facts
05:05 - The experience of growing up as a Gen X
06:06 - Mixing up behavior with meaning
07:50 - Change in the landscape of struggles between generations
10:50 - Importance of giving people the safe space
13:00 - Storytelling as a tool of dealing with trauma
15:21 - Importance of listening to our kids and the people around us
17:00 - An experience back when I was a traditional healthcare practitioner
20:00 - Emotional awareness, emotional literacy and emotional honesty
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