Gemma Spake

move through the emotion, dance, hike, just, I don't know, anything.

It all functions on the same kind of plane and through the same mechanism of release.

Another way to really process your emotions is to capture it through a different creative medium.

Write it all down.

Send yourself a voice note when you're like in the middle of the feeling.

Journal just to see how your emotions evolve.

Make art.

write poems, whatever it is.

When you translate your emotions into words, into sound, imagery, art, you are essentially converting something raw and implicit and hidden into something structured and explicit and visible.

A lot of what processing our emotions really is, is just being able to sit side by side with an emotion, let yourself feel it, understand why you are having it and channeling it.

And how have humans been doing that for thousands of years before you had podcasts like this one?

Like through art.

Why do you think so many albums are breakup albums?

Why do you think so many movies are about grief?

Or why do you think there's so much art about suffering and war and violence?

Because it is the or one of the primary instinctual ways that we allow ourselves to feel as a species, right?

Finally, if you really want to process your emotions and get to the solid core of why you are feeling what you are feeling when you are feeling it.

Oh my goodness, that was a million times.

But if you really want that emotional clarity, that's going to mean, you know, you know yourself, that's going to mean that you are in touch with yourself.

Please stop telling yourself that you are not just, you're just not an emotions person.