Embracing Discomfort
Ryan emphasizes the importance of learning to feel discomfort as a pathway to greater joy and satisfaction in life. By building distress tolerance, individuals can confront their pain without resorting to harmful short-term reliefs. He discusses how early life adaptations, often formed in response to trauma, can lead to maladaptive strategies that persist into adulthood, highlighting the need for awareness and resolution.In this clip
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Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave
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How do negative experiences, such as being told at a young age or into adulthood how we should feel (e.g., feeling ashamed or not being allowed to feel sad), get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions? This was discussed in the episode Tools for Overcoming Substance & Behavioral Addictions | Ryan Soave, the episode #614: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, the clip Embracing Pain's Gift from the episode Dr. Marc Brackett: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence, and the clip Permission to Feel.
Is this a good way to explain the importance of going to therapy?
Deep-rooted issues contribute to chronic stress increases, so if you can treat and solve the trauma behind them, it can seamlessly reduce your total stress throughout the week.