The Power of Emotional Healing: Unmasking Traumas and Embracing Happiness

I promise you a journey to your emotional center, a place where you can unmask hidden traumas that may have been sabotaging your current life and relationships. I will guide you through self-reflection, empowering you to understand and take control of your emotions.

Our discussion will help you recognize signs of emotional wounds such as a persistently anxious state and a limited emotional range. Together, we will uncover strategies for emotional healing and embrace the transformation towards a more fulfilling life.

But that's not all! We are also throwing open the doors to happiness and success, right in your own home. We discuss the power of positivity, not as a cliché but as a real catalyst for personal and professional success.

We explore how sharing your thoughts and experiences can change not just your life, but also the lives of others. I invite you to join our free Facebook group, Positivity Powerhouse, and connect with a community that champions happiness and success.

Look forward to our next episode where we continue to navigate the journey of leading a happier, more successful life at home. Always remember, take the best and the best will happen to you.


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Transcript

Behnaz: 0:01

Get ready to be inspired, motivated and empowered. Welcome to the Home, happy, successful Podcast, where we will talk about positivity, mindset and different tactics and strategies to be more happy and successful. I'm your host, Behnaz Vala, and I'm on a mission to help as many people as possible to be more successful through a positive mindset. Whether you're looking to improve your career, strengthen your relationships or find more happiness and fulfillment in your life, you'll find the guidance and inspiration you need right here. Join me in this fascinating journey and become more home, happy and successful. Welcome to the beautiful world of the power of mind and positive thinking. Let's start our journey together.

Behnaz: 0:56

Emotional healing is such an important part of overall wellness and happiness, yet it's often overlooked or not fully understood. To start with, let me define what emotional healing actually is. At its core, emotional healing is the process of working through past emotional wounds, traumas and negative experiences in a way that reduces their ongoing harmful effects on our present-day lives and relationships. It's about gaining clarity, perspective and resolution regarding events from our past so that we can move forward in a healthier emotional state. Unresolved emotional wounds don't just magically fade over time on their own. We have to be proactive in addressing them. Emotional wounds from our past can manifest in many unhealthy ways if left unhealed. For example, anxiety is often rooted in past experiences where we felt a lack of control or faced uncertainty without support. Depression frequently stems from unresolved grief loss or feeling of low self-worth. Relationship issues may arise when we carry wounds into new relationships that cause us to withdraw, lash out or constantly seek approval. Addictive tendencies can form as an unhealthy coping mechanism for bearish pain. The list goes on, but you get the idea. Emotional wounds have lasting impacts if not addressed through healing work. Because we don't understand. We need emotional healing. That's the problem.

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If you suffer from injury and have a broken bone, you can see it. You can certainly feel it. You know you have to get it fixed. This isn't always the case when emotions are out of whack. You might think your emotional responses to your experiences are correct and healthy. Well, you could be so wrong. They may be anything but correct and healthy. Here are five signs that you could use some emotional healing to live a more complete and fulfilling life.

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You don't experience a wide range of emotions. We have access to 34,000 different and unique emotions. That's what psychologist Robert Plotchik believed. He stated that most of us only experience eight primary emotions most of the time. These are anger, sadness, disgust, trust, fear, joy, surprise and anticipation. If only a couple of those are usually present, you probably need more emotional balance. This could indicate that you aren't properly processing situations and human interactions.

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Low self-esteem and a poor self-image. This is what I mentioned before. You constantly look down on yourself. Everyone has times when they doubt their abilities. It's normal and it's okay. You recover and move on With an emotionally unhealthy person.

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It is not every now and then. It's almost always. They have a low sense of self-worth. More often, even when there is evidence this isn't the case, you have difficulty trusting others. A lack of trust can come from emotional imbalance. You must love yourself and truly believe you can overcome a bad relationship experience or you will never trust others. You can't move past the negative experience.

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Life can be difficult. At times even seem impossible. It might look like you will never recover in the middle of the most difficult situation. You will Don't embrace and hold on to negative emotions. Practice gratitude for the great things in your life, lean on your support network and get whatever help you need if you can seem to let go of negative emotions by yourself.

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Constant anxiety and stress. Chronic stress is a killer and has been directly linked to many common causes of death. A constant display of stress and anxiety could mean you are not always responding to life correctly where your emotions are concerned. There is no miracle pill you can pop to always enjoy perfect emotional balance. You will have ups and downs and sometimes experienced difficult times that hurt you emotionally. For you to live your best life and for the sake of those who love you, you need to learn to recognize negative life experiences, give it its due and then move on. Consider seeking help if you often display these signs of poor emotional health. Now let's see what we should do and how we can help ourselves when we realize that we need emotional healing.

Behnaz: 6:34

One of the most important aspects of emotional healing is self-reflection. We have to carve out time for deep introspection to uncover emotional wounds from our past that may still be unresolved and influencing us today. This could involve journaling about memories, meditating on how you feel in your body or talking with a therapist to gain new perspectives. Through self-reflection, we can start to see patterns from our past that still impact how we feel, think and behave. We can identify beliefs we have about ourselves or others that stem from past experiences but no longer serve us well. Gaining clarity and how our past shapes our present is an important key. For example, through journaling, you may realize that feeling of not being good enough can be traced back to critical moments from a parent as a child or in therapy. You could have an aha moment where you connect anxiety in relationships to a past divorce you witnessed. These insights are so important because they give you power over your past rather than letting it unconsciously control you. Self-reflection is truly the first step toward emotional healing.

Behnaz: 8:04

Another important part of the process is feeling and processing our emotions. For many of us, we were never taught healthy ways to deal with difficult emotions. As children, we may have been told to just get over it or suppress how we really felt. As adults, we carry those unhealthy coping mechanisms with us. Emotional healing requires that we get in touch with emotions like sadness, anger and fear and allow ourselves to truly feel them in a safe way. Feeling our emotions is how we give them space to be released rather than staying stuck within us. This could look like journaling to get emotions out on paper, creative expression through art or music to externalize feelings, talking through emotions with close friends or a therapist or other methods of emotional processing. The key is finding healthy outlets that work for you. Buttoling of emotions preserves wounds rather than healing them. Feeling feelings is a must for releasing the past power over your present state of being.

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Another theme that often comes up in emotional healing work is forgiveness. Forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean accepting or excusing harmful actions of others, but rather releasing resentment and the desire for revenge. This can be incredibly freeing, though not always easy. Forgiveness of others and ourselves is an important part of releasing emotional wounds and moving forward. Forgiving ourselves for perceived failures of the past can also be a big part of the process. We may hold on to guilt or shame that no longer serves us. Through self-reflection and emotional processing, we can gain compassion for our past selves, who were doing the best they could with the tools and circumstances they had at a time. Forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves, so we are no longer bound by past mistakes or judgments. That allows us to accept ourselves fully as imperfect human beings.

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In addition to forgiveness, setting boundaries is another tool that supports emotional healing. We may have learned patterns as children where we didn't set appropriate boundaries and instead we showed people pleasing behavior to avoid conflict or hurt. As adults, we continue those patterns, which allows others to disrespect our emotional needs and boundaries. Part of healing is learning to set boundaries with others in a loving yet firm way, so that our emotional well-being is protected. We can say no without guilt and demand respect from people in our lives. Setting boundaries is an act of self-care that nourishes emotional healing.

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The last thing to mention is the importance of community and support system. Everyone heals emotionally in isolation. We all need others, whether it's a support group, close friends or a therapist. Having people you can be vulnerable with and gain perspective from is so important. A caring community encourages and supports us through the ups and downs of emotional healing work. They celebrate our progress and remind us of our worth on difficult days. Make nurturing your support systems a priority as you embark on your emotional healing journey. Reaching out for help is a sign of strength, not weakness. Remember that it's a process that takes time and gentleness with ourselves. Be patient, take it one step at a time and don't hesitate to seek support. Your emotional well-being is so worldwide to invest in.

Behnaz: 12:24

Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and share it with your friends and family. I would also love to hear your thoughts and experiences, so leave a comment and share them with me. Also, join my free Facebook group, positivity Powerhouse and discover more. The link to join is in the show notes. Stay tuned for the next episode, where we will continue to explore important topics related to being home happy and successful. I'm so looking forward to talking to you next week. Take the best, and the best will happen to you.