You can’t out-think your emotions — but you can change your relationship with them. In this episode, I share a simple exercise that helps you stop fighting uncomfortable feelings and start making space for them instead. Pursuing a meaningful life doesn’t mean you’ll feel good all the time, it means learning to coexist with discomfort without letting it control you. This episode will show you how calm starts not by pushing feelings away, but by welcoming them home.

Key insights:

• Every emotion in you is a child. Some loud, some quiet. None of them deserves to be cast out
• Chronic emotions are just feelings that never got permission to pass
• You don’t have to like your feelings. You just have to make room for them.

Timestamps

00:30 — Why a meaningful life includes uncomfortable emotions.
01:51 — Writing exercise: listing and acknowledging all the emotional “children.”
05:31 — Why rejecting emotions makes them stronger and more dominant.
07:25 — Kindness narrative: Gifts from an architect.

For full shownotes, including resources mentioned, go to: https://www.calmyourcaveman.com/episodes/parent-your-feelings-dont-punish-them

Submit Your Kindness Narrative:

• Share a moment of kindness that moved you or changed you.
• Email your story (written or audio) to calmyourcaveman@gmail.com or
• DM me on Instagram @CalmYourCaveman.