How to Grow Your Feeling Muscle and Why It Matters with Dr. Jenn Rapkin| 12.10.2025
In this episode, Kristen talks with naturopathic physician and author Dr. Jenn Rapkin about why feeling emotions instead of numbing or avoiding them is essential to healing and offers simple, body-based tools to help you move through hard feelings with greater clarity, connection, and resilience.
You'll Learn
- Why feeling your emotions instead of numbing or avoiding them is essential for true healing and getting unstuck.
- How to recognize your personal numbing patterns and what they might be protecting you from.
- Why emotions move in waves, and how to start safely sitting with hard feelings without getting overwhelmed.
- How mixed emotions can expand your capacity for connection, compassion, and inner security.
- Simple ways to shift from living in your head into your body.
Resources:
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This information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. It is being provided to you to educate you about ideas on stress management and as a self-help tool for your own use. It is not psychotherapy/counseling in any form.