Episode 5: Too much coping, not enough healing

"The word 'cope' comes from 'to do battle or to fight against,'" says Dr. Leslie Greenberg in the fifth episode of Your Emotions: A User's Guide. "So if you're coping, you're actually fighting against yourself and this is very different to the process of healing, where 'healing' means 'to make whole again.'"In this episode, Les and Michele discuss their perspective that in the current mental health world there is "Too much coping, not enough healing." Les suggests that coping can often even become a kind of "block" or protective mechanism that can stand in the way of healing. At the end of the episode, Les leads viewers and listeners through an exercise designed to help them "notice the protector" and how they may be unconsciously blocking themselves from the healing they are striving for. In this 12-episode podcast, Your Emotions: A User's Guide, Les Greenberg and therapist Michele Carroll offer a practical user's guide to understanding your emotional system and working with emotions to change how you feel from the inside out. Along the way, they also challenge the current over-emphasis on coping and emotion regulation that can sometimes actually keep us stuck or inadvertently worsen anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. In each episode, they share a common sense emotion principle for helping you understand how emotions work, and how your emotions can work for you. Each episode also includes an "emotional navigation tip" exercise led by Dr. Greenberg so that viewers and listeners can try out the principles for themselves. Like and subscribe ⁨@EmotionUsersGuide⁩. If you find the podcast useful, we encourage you to share it with clients, friends, family members, or anyone else who might be interested, to help all of us better understand how to work with our emotions. #copingstrategies #mentalhealth #emotionalhealing #anxietyrelief #depressionrelief For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'[email protected] more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: [email protected]