104. Feel It to Heal It: What to Do With Fear, Anger, and Grief
Renegade Remission: Holistic Healing for Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's, Dementia, MS, ALSShow Notes
When you're facing a serious illness, the pressure to "stay positive" can become one more thing to worry about. You may already be frightened about your diagnosis, angry about what has happened, or grieving everything illness has changed, only to wonder whether feeling those emotions could somehow interfere with your recovery. But healing emotionally does not require you to be happy all the time. In this episode of Renegade Remission, we explore the important difference between feeling a difficult emotion, suppressing it, and becoming stuck in it, and what research suggests may happen inside the body when emotions are continually pushed down rather than allowed to move through us. You'll also hear the remarkable remission story of Di Foster, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer after her cancer spread extensively to both lungs and was told she had approximately 12 months to live. Di came to believe that genuine positivity wasn't about avoiding fear, anger, or sadness at all. It was about becoming willing to face those emotions honestly so she could continue living fully alongside them. In this episode, you'll discover: Why you do not have to stay positive every moment in order to support healing The difference between emotional suppression and healthy emotional regulation What happens physiologically when we try to hide or contain difficult emotions What studies involving trauma, immune function, cancer, and chronic illness have found about emotional expression and acceptance Why processing an emotion is different from repeatedly ruminating on it How to recognize when reflection has stopped helping and started keeping your body stuck in the same stress response A practical process for safely making room for fear, anger, sadness, and grief and then allowing yourself to move forward
Listen now to learn how to tend the whole emotional garden, giving the weeds the attention they need without forgetting to make room for the flowers.
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