Emotion Focused Podcast

Oct 04 2024 32 ep. 30

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You may have heard a lot about how your thinking impacts your well being, but how much do you know about the role that emotions play?

Listen in to find out how emotions work for us and sometimes, seemingly, don’t work for us. This may lead to a whole new understanding of why you feel the way you feel and how that might be able to change.

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Series 2 Ep #8 Shame and Anger

How are shame and anger connected? In this episode Dr Leslie Greenberg speaks of shame as ‘the most painful emotion’ and describes how the experience of feeling worthless can interact with anger. Listen in to find out how an understanding of this interaction might be helpful in changing difficult experiences of both shame and anger and our relationship to both these emotions.

Series 2 Ep #7 Emotion Revolution?

The second of two episodes exploring the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people and what might be useful in the therapeutic space. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their experience of working with gender and sexual minorities.

Series 2 Ep #6 Can you see me? Part II

The second of two episodes exploring the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people and what might be useful in the therapeutic space. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their experience of working with gender and sexual minorities.

Series 2 Ep #5 Can you see me? Part I

The first of two episodes exploring Minority Stress and the common emotional experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Kurt Renders and Lou Cooper talk about their own lived experience of growing up as ‘other’ in a heteronormative and cisnormative world.

Series 2 Ep #4 Emotion Awareness on Emotion Awareness Day (2 June)

How are you going to celebrate Emotion Awareness Day? And why do we need such a day in the first place? In this episode Robert Elliott talks about the benefits of emotion awareness and also shares a poem they wrote expressly to celebrate this day.

Series 2 Ep #3 Tears all the time

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’? Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

Series 2 Ep #2 Being versus doing

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’? Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

Series 2 Ep#1 Riding the roller coaster: emotions in young folk

Growing from a dependent infant into a well adjusted adult is a long and complicated process, according to Dr Mirisse Foroughe, and young people need the opportunity to learn to handle life’s hardships and experience difficult emotions. In this episode Mirisse shares some of what she has learnt from over 20 years’ experience riding the emotional rollercoaster with children, ado

Series 1 Ep #24 Unshaming shame: a personal story

This episode looks at the importance of psychotherapists working on their own emotional process. Marco Mendes tells the story of his own experience of shame in the course of training as an Emotion Focused Therapist and describes the impact of one small moment during his training in transforming the pain of his shame.

Series 1 Ep #23 I just can’t let it go

When we have unfinished business with significant people in our lives it seems logical that these people should be involved in working things out so we can move on. However, in this episode, Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone explains how associated persistent and difficult emotional experiences related to others can be worked through all by ourselves.