Your Emotions: A User's Guide

In our fourth episode, we are discussing the way in which our emotions actually form an internal guidance or navigation system that Les Greenberg likens to our own GPS. Les and Michele discuss the different "action tendencies" of different emotions and how to tell which ones you should follow and which are giving you bad guidance, like using an old map with roads that are no longer there. Along the way, the talk about the difference between adaptive and maladaptive emotions, as well as core emotions and secondary emotions. Les ends the episode with an exercise to help viewers have an experience of what it is like to follow your own internal emotional guidance. In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. Like and subscribe ⁨@EmotionUsersGuide⁩. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'sGuide.comyouremotionsausersguide@gmail.comFor more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: TherapyWithMichele.commichele.carroll.therapist@gmail.com

In our third episode, we are discussing the important emotion principle that "insight is not enough." This is a common expression that you hear in therapy circles, but Les Greenberg makes clear that we can understand something, but that doesn't enable us to actually change. Les and Michele talk about the pull of explanation and the illusion that the answer to "why" will heal our emotional wounds. And they begin to outline what can work instead, including an exercise giving viewers an experience of the difference between a core belief and the emotion scheme that gave rise to it.In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'sGuide.comyouremotionsausersguide@gmail.comFor more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: TherapyWithMichele.commichele.carroll.therapist@gmail.com

In our second episode, we're tackling another really important part of our why, which is that emotions come first. Les Greenberg says that popular "cognition first" therapy approaches today get it backwards. Our thoughts don't produce our feelings; instead, our emotions produce our thoughts. In fact, emotion comes before thought not only physiologically but also evolutionarily and developmentally. Learn why Les says that emotion is the basic datum of human experience: "I feel, therefore I am." In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'sGuide.comyouremotionsausersguide@gmail.com For more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenberg For more information on Michele Carroll: TherapyWithMichele.commichele.carroll.therapist@gmail.com

What if the ways you've learned to manage your emotions are actually keeping you stuck? For the first time, Dr. Leslie Greenberg, who has studied emotion for nearly 50 years, has created a project intended for a general audience. In the first episode of Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les and therapist Michele Carroll discuss the emotion principle "What we resist persists" and explore how managing our emotions by pushing them away can actually inadvertently create or worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'sGuide.comyouremotionsausersguide@gmail.com For more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenberg For more information on Michele Carroll: TherapyWithMichele.commichele.carroll.therapist@gmail.com

What if some of the things you've learned to do to manage your emotions are actually keeping you stuck? In this 12-episode limited series podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Dr. Leslie Greenberg, who has spent nearly half a century studying emotion, takes a different approach. Instead of trying to control or think your way out of difficult feelings, what if you learned to listen to what your emotions are trying to tell you?Launching October 20th with episodes 1-3. Please like and subscribe and share with friends and family who might also want a user's guide to their emotions.About Your Emotions: A User's GuideIn this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. Like and subscribe ⁨@EmotionUsersGuide⁩. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions.For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'sGuide.comyouremotionsausersguide@gmail.comFor more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: TherapyWithMichele.commichele.carroll.therapist@gmail.com