The Trap of Feeling Your Feelings
In this episode of Mind Your Matter, we’re getting into something we all experience but rarely slow down to unpack: what’s the actual difference between emotions and feelings? (Hint: they’re not the same thing, even though we use them interchangeably.)
We talk about how emotions show up and leave just as quickly in the body, but feelings tend to hang around like that one app you forgot to close-slowly draining your battery in the background. Thanks to memory and meaning, those sensations can quietly keep you stuck in old, protective loops-reacting from the past instead of living in the now.
This episode is an invitation to notice when you might be running an outdated program, and to learn to gently step away from old emotional responses. No fixing, no forcing-just some healthy dissociating.
If you’ve ever wondered why your body and mind keep playing the same track on repeat-this one’s for you.
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