Emotion Focused Podcast Dr Lou

What is ‘being’ and what is ‘doing’ and why do we seem to put so much emphasis these days on ‘being’? Has ‘doing’ become the poor cousin of ‘being’?

Barry Strmelj, contrasts these two states and explains how ‘being’ and ‘doing’ can work together.

Growing from a dependent infant into a well adjusted adult is a long and complicated process, according to Dr Mirisse Foroughe, and young people need the opportunity to learn to handle life’s hardships and experience difficult emotions. In this episode Mirisse shares some of what she has learnt from over 20 years’ experience riding the emotional rollercoaster with children, adolescents and their families.

This episode looks at the importance of psychotherapists working on their own emotional process. Marco Mendes tells the story of his own experience of shame in the course of training as an Emotion Focused Therapist and describes the impact of one small moment during his training in transforming the pain of his shame.

When we have unfinished business with significant people in our lives it seems logical that these people should be involved in working things out so we can move on. However, in this episode, Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone explains how associated persistent and difficult emotional experiences related to others can be worked through all by ourselves.

When there is trouble in the world we often feel lost, despairing and helpless to do anything about it. Our emotions run high and it’s hard to give ourselves a break from it. In this episode Shari Geller talks us through a mindful practice that is designed to give us just that. It is an opportunity for us to be kind to ourselves.

Have you had the experience of the same old difficult feeling coming up again and again, even though you thought you’d worked things out? In this episode Aksel Inge Sinding talks about this common experience and the emotional process that might be going on and making this happen.