What To Do When Your Emotions Surge, You Feel Overwhelmed, & You Take It Out On Others (Equanimity & Mental Health Series p. 4) [51]

Joy Lab | strengthen your mental health with the science of joy · Mar 22, 2023 · 1m

The last few episodes we worked with the internal dynamics of an emotional storm and how equanimity can come in to tame the anxiety, fear, reactivity, ruminations, and stress that can surge. Now, we'll look at how this process can expand outside ourselves. We're probably all familiar with this phase as well: we say or do things out of surges of emotions that took us by surprise, negative thoughts that hung on, and story lines we told ourselves. These kind of outbursts are inevitable given all the energy we've brewed up in the early phases of the storm and, well, it just kind of needs to go…