How To Fix Emotional Burnout And Feel Greater Ease In Your Body

Jul 29, 2023 | Podcast

What emotion are you feeling right now? Happy, sad, angry, lonely? Here’s how you can fix emotional burnout.

Nine times out of ten when I talk with clients and group members about body image and emotional eating, the conversation comes back to emotional burnout. Especially if the person didn’t learn how to express emotions as a child or it wasn’t safe to do so.

Speaking of emotions, have you read Atlas of The Heart by Brené Brown?

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According to research by Brené Brown, most people are aware of only 4 emotions happy, sad, angry, and lonely. But there are many more emotions we experience!

87 according to Atlas of The Heart. A limited vocabulary to describe what you feel can keep difficult emotions stuck in your body. This decreases opportunities for human connection, openness, and vulnerability.

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My guest in this episode of the Savor Food and Body Podcast is Meghan Thomas the host of the Emotional Expedition Podcast.

Meghan Thomas helps women address emotional burnout.

Meghan shares how her personal experience with medical trauma lead her to research how emotions can get stuck in the body to create dis-ease.

We discuss how this quote by Brene Brown applies to Meghan’s story and her work:

“When we name an emotion or an experience, it doesn’t give that emotion or experience more power, it gives us more power.”
Brene Brown

Meghan explains how trauma and emotions get stuck in your body when you don’t have the tools to move the emotions through your body. This can lead to emotional eating, food guilt, and body shame.

Meghan offers 4 strategies to help women in midlife connect, process, and move through difficult emotions like stress, emotional overwhelm, and burnout.

Meghan Thomas is the host of the Emotional Expedition Podcast. Her podcast was born out of the many challenges she experienced in her life and her understanding that emotions and trauma get stuck in the body. Releasing those stuck emotions starts with the awareness of what you’re feeling in the first place and then doing the work to move it through the body.