Course Introduction: Most people just don’t have the skills
When it comes to managing emotions most people only have around 3 skills, things like: 1-Talk it out, 2-Avoid it 4- or try to cope, 3- Eat something. Now these skills might work great in a couple of situations or they might be just fine in the short term, but if these are the only skills you have, then when big, loud, intense emotions come up for you-you probably don’t know what to do with them. And that’s when things can get ugly. You get reactive, maybe you develop depression or anxiety.
Over the next 30 videos I’m going to teach you skills that help you not only process through feelings of anxiety and depression, but emotions in general. These videos are part of a larger course I’m working on but the bulk of the videos on Emotion processing are going right here on YouTube. This is how to work through big painful emotions. You could call this emotional intelligence, or controlling or coping with your emotions, but it’s better than that. It’s actually resolving your emotions. Knowing how to process emotions is essential to living a happy life, to having healthy relationships, to being a good boss or friend or lover. Research shows over and over that these are the skills that help people live a good life-but most people have never even heard of them.
You’re going to learn over 30 skills to process emotions, these are the skills you’d learn in like a year of therapy- now obviously this course is not therapy- therapy is an incredible process between two human beings working together in a customized environment of growth. But as one part of therapy, I teach skills- and you can learn those emotion processing skills right here.
When I talk about processing emotions, I mean we literally need to go through a process to regulate and resolve our emotions. In this video you’re going to learn what emotion processing is, what gets in the way of it, and how you can start to learn to work through your emotions so they don’t build up in a harmful way in your life.
I’m Emma McAdam, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and my mission is to make mental health resources easier to access. I take therapy skills and psychological research and condense them down into bite-sized nuggets of help.
As a licensed therapist, one thing I’ve noticed is that most people have no idea of what they can do to improve depression, anxiety, or other mental illness.
I’m here to spread the message that while mental illness is real, it’s common, it’s debilitating, it’s also treatable. There are dozens of research-backed approaches to treating depression, anxiety, ptsd, and other mental illness. Change, growth, and healing are possible. Please keep courage! Try one little thing every day to improve your life and health, and things can get so much better!
I am not currently taking any new clients, but you can find a therapist with my sponsor: BetterHelp.com/therapyinanutshell
