Series 2 Ep #11 It’s not supposed to be like this!
You know when something happens that is completely unexpected and challenges the way we see and understand the world and our lives in it? This is what we are talking about in this episode. Juliette Becking explains ‘meaning protests’ and ‘cherished beliefs’ and what we can try and do to move on from these challenging events.
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Series 2 Ep #11 Emotions in sport
How do emotions work in sport to make us win or lose, or just to motivate us to participate? Psychologist, Thomas Nordhagen talks about the role that attachment and identity play in driving us to run, ski or swim as fast as we can and what it means to athletes when they are no longer able to compete.
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Series 2 Ep #10 Where is the pain?
Why on earth would we want to engage with emotional pain when it can hurt so much? and how come it is so difficult to locate where emotional pain is in the body? Psychologist and Emotion Focused Therapist, Ashley White, explains why it might be useful to ask yourself, ‘Where is the pain’ in order to process difficult emotions.
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Series 2 Ep #9 Autism and emotions
Dr Anna Robinson talks about the challenge of being either hypo- or hypersensitive in a neuro-typical world and dispels some of the myths about the emotional experience of autistic people. Anna describes how activism has helped to depathologize autism and contributed to advancing changes in the nature of emotionally therapeutic support.
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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.
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.
Ireland