It’s one of the peculiarities of the way we’re built that we lack immediate access to many of our most important emotions. When people ask us ‘how are you?’ and we reply in vague and superficial terms, we aren’t often simply hiding our real feelings from our audiences, we may not be in touch with them ourselves. To start to regain a better hold on our true feelings, we should submit ourselves to an artificial exercise: we should ask ourselves a series of structured questions. We should, when we have time off, probably late at night or in the early morning, lie somewhere quietly without interruption, perhaps close our eyes and interview our minds as if they belonged to someone else (they sort of do). | | | Whether it's the concern of a fellow colleague or the upset of a rejected partner, we're often unaware of the feelings festering within us until it's projected onto the outer world. Nurturing self-awareness – and figuring out how to communicate it – helps us to understand that our suffering is, more often than not, a reflection of our unexamined wounds.
Each of the topics within our app offers a guided, step-by-step journey of articles, podcasts and videos on areas related to self-knowledge, relationships, sociability and more: | In such moments where we feel we are drowning in the deluge of distress, our Emotional First Aid tool is a guided source of support. Access immediate resources on life’s most pressing emotions, as well as the option to book a therapist in moments of particular difficulty. | | | |
