Movement, Mindfulness and Feeling Feelings
Episode 16 season 6: Alyssa Scarano on Holistic Mental Health
As a highly sensitive woman, if you find yourself hiding from painful feelings, listen in on this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast. as host Elizabeth Cush and counselor Alyssa Scarano talk about integrating the body and mind to manage your emotions.
“If we’re numbing one emotion or suppressing one emotion, or bearing down, or whatever reaction we’re having to one emotion, it starts to affect all the other ones.”
Show Notes:
Being highly sensitive means feeling deeply. Too often, though, we minimize or even bury some of those feelings. Maybe they’re painful. Maybe we believe the message that we’re overreacting. Maybe we think we’re weak. Whatever the reason, we do ourselves a disservice by not feeling our whole range of feelings. In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and soul support for highly sensitive women, welcomes Alyssa Scarano, LPC, NCC, founder and clinical director of The Collective Therapy & Wellness. They talk about a holistic approach to mental health that integrates therapy with wellness practices like yoga and mindfulness to help manage emotions and strengthen compassion for your sensitive self.
Listen and learn:
How our relationship with ourself affects all our other relationships
Why it can be so helpful for highly sensitive women to work with a therapist who is also highly sensitive
Why yoga and running can be great teachers for learning to be comfortable with the full spectrum of emotions
Some of the many reasons why we can feel stuck in some negative emotions
The value of connecting physical sensations with emotional feelings
Caveats around engaging in physical practices
What can happen when we try to suppress or bear down on one emotion
What we gain from feeling—and listening to—our emotions
How to use emotions as tools to uncover what we need
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Learn More:
Alyssa Scarano’s The Collective Therapy & Wellness website
Biz’s Guided meditations on Insight Timer
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