Mental & Emotional Health: The Power of Processing Emotions

6-min-to-read

 Let’s start with a question:

How do you currently process emotions?

Do you have a effective methods, or do you more often fall into unconscious protective strategies like avoidance, distraction, and numbing?

Processing emotions—both everyday stressors and deeper past imprints—is essential for mental well-being. If emotions aren't processed, they don’t just disappear; they store in the body, influencing decisions, energy, and even physical health. Let’s break this down into two key areas:

1. Processing Everyday Stress

We all experience stressors like work deadlines, traffic, your partner chewing too loud, your housemates leaving dishes left in the sink, <insert your daily tasks here: _______________>.

These daily frustrations might seem minor, but when left unchecked, they add up.

Think of it like carrying a backpack. Each of your daily stressors (when left...

The Fulfillment Focus - Physical Health - Expert Interview with Lifestyle Expert Dai Manuel 

Every month we're going to be concentrating on one of the categories in the Life Inventory Assessment - a holistic view of living your full life. January's focus is Physical Health.

Dai and Maurice discuss physical health and fitness, with Dai Manuel providing expert insights.

You can learn more about Dai Manuel by visiting his website: https://www.daimanuel.com/ 

Checkout Dai's podcast here: https://spoti.fi/4hF3B1P 

Take your own Life Inventory Assessment here: https://www.illuminationexperiences.c... 

We are blessed to have this interview with Dai Manuel - an award winning wellness and fitness expert. He and Maurice discuss rest and recovery, nutrition and hydration, exercise and physical recovery.

 Key takeaways from this interview:

~ Rest and recovery are critical for physical adaptation and overall health; consistency in sleep patterns is key.

~ Nutrition...

Kickstart Your Year of Fulfillment: Prioritizing Physical Health

Welcome to the first installment of the Fulfillment Project blog series! Over the next 12 months, we'll dive deep into a different life category each month, starting with Physical Health this January.

This series is designed to help you (and your clients, if you're a coach or helper) boost life fulfillment by tackling key areas one by one.

Here's what you can expect in each post:

• Actionable insights and resources: No fluff here, just practical advice you can implement right away.
• Tried-and-true tools: I'll share my personal recommendations for products and resources that have actually worked for me.
• Behind-the-scenes with Tracy and me: Get a glimpse into our lives and how we apply these principles.
• Self-reflection prompts: Questions to help you dig deeper and personalize your fulfillment journey.
• Expert interview: Gain valuable insights from a leading voice in the field.

Why...

Welcome to the FUTURE...

I offer you a deep-dive perspective on vision and goal theory, and reveal what I see as the secret to being able to set and connect with the vivid images of your ideal future; while, at the SAME time, not be ATTACHED to the outcome. 

It seems like an oxymoron—right?  

The Secret To Creating Powerful Life Visions

How do we allow ourselves to see and believe in a future, while NOT being attached to it? 

Much theory in goal achievement supports the essential function of FOCUS.  To manifest our future, we want to bend time, blast ourselves into that future, to see, feel, hear, taste, and touch its reality. The more clearly we can enhance and embody that picture, the more likely it is to manifest.

BUT, how do we create this crystal clear picture, while NOT being attached to how it turns out?

Doesn't it stand to reason that we protect ourselves from disappointment and failure by merely ALLOWING...

Imagine that you are in a coaching session with a new client, and you ask them, “Tell me about your life?  

98% of clients don’t have the capacity to answer this question.

The negative, disserving, unnecessary consequence when a coach lacks the CONTEXT of understanding the client’s life is MORE TIME spent and MORE PAIN experienced. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. That’s why the best coaches use the best tools to support and accelerate the coaching process.

12:38 Start: “The difference… 
13:53 End: “Safe”

S4 E12 - Maurice Thibodeau 
Watch the full interview here: https://watch.e360tv.com/player/29490/663140
Visit www.illuminationexperiences.com for more resources on coaching and living on purpose. 
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I'm committed to sending you a few updates a month with helpful resources in answering the time old question: What does it mean to live our best life?    

Originally Published, Wednesday, Nov. 13th, 2019 - through email
Sometimes living with your heart wide open is bloody painful.  

Sometimes, the reality of having my heart wide open feels like it is literally throbbing on an open white table, blood sputtering about, exposed and vulnerable, available for anyone to take a squeeze, or walk past by, or worse yet, stab through with a dull scalpel. 

I've had an interesting few weeks, full of wisdom and connections. 

I find myself seeing more of the world than ever before, and sometimes seeing more makes it harder.  

I see the opportunities for connection, for deepening, for shared experience, for co-creation...and I also see closed doors, fear, rejections, and...

Hard Time

A caring group of people is going through a hard time right now. I wrote this thinking about them.

Hard Time

Are you living your "purpose"?

In the past, when I've been faced with this question, it used to send a punch of fear and a spike of pressure that made me want to run for the hills.  

Without a clear answer to that question, it left me thinking:

• Does that mean I should know exactly what my one thing is?
• And if I don’t, does that mean I’m not living my purpose, am I missing it?
• And jeez, if I pick my one thing, but I’m wrong? 
• Does it make me a hypocrite if I change my mind and my purpose path changes with it? 

I think the reference to “purpose” as being the one thing that we were put on this earth to do, is limiting, not all that helpful, and can harm our progress to living it.  I want to offer a different perspective.  

"Purpose" -  the lived expression of our values and our gifts.

I believe that the experience of living with purpose is one that takes...

• My three greatest learnings from John and his work with an explanation of how I got here:
  1. Trust my intuition. (Time Stamp 3:03)
  2. I am not my fears or my limiting beliefs. (Time Stamp 7:26)
  3. Life is energy and how that energy...

Today, we talk back to school parenting, during "these times".  

For me, COVID 19 acted like a magnifying lens helping me to pay even closer attention to my kids’ experience. 

As parents, we want to know that our kids will be alright, and with them facing a new school reality, I had some anxiousness.  

After watching my girls leave yesterday morning, I’m pleased to say I was less anxious and most inspired. 

In our house, the first day of school felt very much the same as others. COVID has not changed or ruined it. It is different, yes. And also, in that difference, there are opportunities.

Ten Opportunities To Pay Attention To "During These Times"

1. Opportunities to face heavy disappointments. To know that they will be hard AND that we will get through it.  
2. Opportunities to adapt to significant changes in routine and structure, together we figure it out. 
3. Opportunities to meet new...