Good management of negative emotions is key if we want to reduce and overcome burnout and any situation that makes us feel bad.
How to deal with negative emotions? – 3 keys
- Identify your emotions: What negative emotions do you notice? Become aware of them to distance yourself from the feeling. When you feel overwhelmed, separating the part of you that is feeling these emotions from who you are by nature—the well-being we talked about last week—is very effective: "There is a part of me that feels sadness."
- Name it: How would you describe the emotion? Naming it allows the prefrontal cortex (the part of our brain that reasons) to remove the emotional charge and let it go, or put it aside. It stops controlling you when we open the door to reason.
- Appreciate what you feel: One of the most effective things when dealing with negative emotions is to accept that we are feeling bad and stop judging ourselves for it: "I am feeling sad about this and that, and that's okay." Something is triggering us, and denying or fighting it will not change it. Accepting it with love will.
Getting to know each other deeply means observing each other deeply.
How am I handling what I feel is leading me to burnout? – We are always responsible for how we interpret what happens.
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