Episode notes
What if the feelings you’ve spent a lifetime pushing down are the very things asking to be heard?
In this solo episode, I want to talk about something people ask me about all the time – what does it actually mean to “do the work”? I recognise that the majority of us grew up in homes where feelings weren’t exactly welcomed. Anger got shut down. Tears got ignored. Mistakes got shamed. And so we learned pretty early that the safest thing to do was to push it all down and get on with it. The problem is, those feelings don’t go anywhere. They just wait.
I explore:
- Why most of us were never taught to process our emotions – and how that shapes our adult behaviour
- The “dark night of the soul” – the crisis moments that often push us toward deeper self-examination
- The loneliness of changing when the people around you ...
Keywords
Self-loveDoing the WorkInner childChildhood imprintsGenerational patternsSelf awareness