Emotion Focused Podcast Dr Lou

How are you going to celebrate Emotion Awareness Day? And why do we need such a day in the first place? In this episode Robert Elliott talks about the benefits of emotion awareness and also shares a poem they wrote expressly to celebrate this day.

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.

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.