Trying to stop the negativity is ...

Trying to stop the negativity is making you feel worse | Confessions of a Wellish Girly

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Wellish by Sarah Ritondale
S5 · E282
Oct 2, 2026
26:21

Episode notes

The tools we're given to stop anxiety, rumination, anger, sadness insert any negative emotion is causing us to suppress our feelings. When we protect ourselves in that way to stay safe or avoid conflict it keeps our emotions in preventing us from healing which leads to unwanted tension. In this episode we are discussing how you have to let yourself sit in the uncomfortable feelings and simultaneously take action despite them. We discuss why this is the way you will actually get closer to ridding yourself of them completely than taking the short come to become the dream version of yourself you picture in your head, but you always end up falling short. I end the episode with tips to dive deeper and express your feelings, so you can practice this in your everyday life.

Keywords

self trust
self compassion
Protecting your energy from negativity
Sarah Ritondale Wellish
self trust and confidence
negative thinking
positive thinking
overcome negativity
overcome anxiety
how to be the observer