Episode 15: Emotional Complexity: When Two Things Are True

In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren explores what it means to live in emotional complexity, especially during times when the world feels heavy, heartbreaking, or overwhelming and your personal life still contains moments of beauty, safety, and joy.

If you’ve ever felt guilty for feeling okay when others are suffering…confused by experiencing gratitude alongside grief…or unsure how to hold multiple emotional truths at once without shutting down…

This conversation is for you.

Lauren gently unpacks why opposing emotions are not a problem to solve, but a human capacity to develop — and how learning to hold emotional complexity can reduce shame, prevent burnout, and help you stay connected to yourself and others.

• Why joy is not a betrayal during times of grief or global distress
  

• How guilt, fairness stories, and nervous system dysregulation complicate our emotional lives
  

• What it means to hold both sorrow and gratitude without collapsing into shame
  

• The difference between emotional complexity and emotional confusion
  

• How unmet emotions go underground and why they “come out sideways”
  

• Practical ways to allow multiple emotions without flooding or bypassing
  

• Why emotional nuance is a sign of aliveness, not weakness
  

This episode is an invitation to stop simplifying your inner world and start honoring the full spectrum of what it means to be human.

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Episode 14: Emotional Unconsciousness: The Hidden Cost of Not Feeling

In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren gently names something many of us experience without realizing it: emotional unconsciousness.

This isn’t about being broken, dramatic, or “bad at feelings.” It’s about what happens when we were never taught how to be with our emotions safely — and how that lack of awareness quietly shapes our lives, relationships, and inner world.

Lauren explores how emotional unconsciousness often shows up as people-pleasing, overthinking, numbing, shame spirals, and disconnection — not because something is wrong with you, but because your system learned ways to protect you. She also shares why awareness can feel hard to access, how unconscious patterns form early, and why compassion is the doorway to change.

Most importantly, this episode offers a grounded, doable path forward. Emotional consciousness isn’t about feeling everything all the time — it’s about building capacity, one small moment of awareness at a time.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What emotional unconsciousness actually looks like in daily life
  

• Why unconscious emotional patterns are protective — not failures
  

• The real cost of staying disconnected from your feelings
  

• Five gentle ways to increase emotional awareness without overwhelm
  

• How curiosity, safety, and support create lasting emotional change

This conversation is an invitation — not to fix yourself, but to begin turning toward yourself with more understanding, compassion, and trust.

Want to Go Deeper? ⁠Join The Emotions Crash Course

If this episode resonated and you’re ready to build real emotional skill, The Emotions Crash Course offers practical tools to help you understand your emotions, stop treating them like problems, and create real relief in your day-to-day life.

✨ Learn more about The Emotions Crash Course HERE

Take the next step in your self-care journey

Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook: Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.

It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.

👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE

Connect with Lauren

• Instagram: @the_emotionscoach

• Website: laurencarlislebrown.com

• Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook

• Emotions Crash Course: JOIN HERE

Episode 13: Emotional Granularity

Emotional Granularity: The Many Shades of Our Emotions

In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren explores emotional granularity, the ability to notice, distinguish, and name your emotional experiences with greater clarity, nuance, and compassion.

Most people don’t struggle because they feel too much. They struggle because they were never taught how to understand what they’re feeling. Emotional granularity offers a gentle, practical way to build that understanding, not by fixing emotions, but by expanding the language you have available to describe what’s already happening in your body.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• The difference between emotions (body sensations) and feelings (the meaning we assign to them)
  

• How emotional concepts shape the way we experience and interpret feelings
  

• Why more emotional language creates more choice, clarity, and self-trust
  

• How emotional granularity exists on a spectrum — and why wherever you are makes sense
  

• Why this work is invitational, not something you need to “get right”
  

Through accessible examples and thoughtful metaphors, Lauren invites you to see your emotional world not as something to control, but as a rich landscape to explore, one shade at a time.

Want to Go Deeper? ⁠Join The Emotions Crash Course⁠

If this episode resonated and you’re ready to build real emotional skill, The Emotions Crash Course offers practical tools to help you understand your emotions, stop treating them like problems, and create real relief in your day-to-day life.

✨ Learn more about The Emotions Crash Course HERE

Resources Mentioned

• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• Feelings & Needs Reference Guide (Nonviolent Communication)

• Emotions Wheel

Take the next step in your self-care journey

Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.

It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.

👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE

Connect with Lauren

• Instagram: @the_emotionscoach

• Website: laurencarlislebrown.com

• Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook

• Emotions Crash Course: JOIN HERE