Episode 3: Insight is not enough

In our third episode, we are discussing the important emotion principle that "insight is not enough." This is a common expression that you hear in therapy circles, but Les Greenberg makes clear that we can understand something, but that doesn't enable us to actually change.

Les and Michele talk about the pull of explanation and the illusion that the answer to "why" will heal our emotional wounds. And they begin to outline what can work instead, including an exercise giving viewers an experience of the difference between a core belief and the emotion scheme that gave rise to it.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. 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. For more information: YourEmotionsAUser'[email protected] more information on Les Greenberg: https://www.cpeh.ca/les-greenbergFor more information on Michele Carroll: [email protected]