14. Why You Should Allow Your Feelings as a Caregiver

In This Together: Building Resilience When Caregiving for Your Partner

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As a caregiver or care partner, you deal with a lot of tough emotions like sadness, resentment, and guilt. In this episode, I explore the positive impact of embracing and processing these difficult feelings. Our natural tendency is to want to avoid or numb ourselves to these types of feelings when they arise. I'm mean, let's face it, who want to feel guilt? But, suppressing emotions can lead to hidden costs (which I talk about in Episode 11), but there are also many great benefits to allowing yourself to feel and process them.
I’ll explain what it means to be "in" your emotion and how that differs from the conscious and deliberate skill of allowing your emotions.
I’ll also teach you my method for processing emotions, which involves noticing, naming, acknowledging, and allowing them. By allowing your emotions, you don’t act them out; instead, you observe yourself experiencing them.
There are four major benefits to learning and practicing this skill. I’ll discuss each one and how it helps you become more resilient not just in caregiving, but also in life!
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References:
11. The Hidden Costs of Suppressing Emotions When Caregiving

As a Resiliency Coach for people who are caregiving for their partner, I'm here to support YOU, the caregiver. Learn more about my work at www.coachmarika.com.

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1. 14. Why You Should Allow Your Feelings as a Caregiver (00:00:00)

2. The Upside of Feeling Emotions (00:00:35)

3. Benefits of Processing Emotions (00:15:47)

4. Understanding Teenage Emotions and Challenges (00:21:07)