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Ep. 388 Everyone Says “Feel Your Feelings.” How Do I Actually Do That After Divorce? · Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, the podcast helping divorcees go beyond talk therapy to process your grief, find the healing you crave, and build back your confidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Don Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer, and divorcee.
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  SPEAKER_00: Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to talk about the number one overlooked and underrated tool for processing your emotional pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the most popular things to talk about in personal development these days is processing our pain and especially to do it somatically or in a way that's embodied, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We just have gotten so clever as a popular culture to start to understand how dissociation leads to disease over time and how to really be in our bodies, to be able to feel into our bodies is such a powerful way to heal trauma and to clear emotional pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that processing emotions somatically, right, in the body, to notice when I feel afraid, I feel it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I feel angry, I feel it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know my emotion tends to get stuck here, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To be able to process things somatically means that we have such a more complete healing process, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We know how many times we have heard Auntie Dawn say that you cannot think your way out of your problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've heard Bessel Vanderkook and Gabor Mate, some of the you know, thought leaders in in trauma processing teach us that we can't think our way out.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to process the stuck emotion out of the cells of our body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so today's episode is really looking at one of the most effective ways to do that, to process pain somatically in a way that you probably just don't even think to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's free and it's easy, it's effort, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just one, two, three.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's unpack it.
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