Beyond Happy: Finding Your Way To Better Emotional Well-Being at VERVE Festival
“Language shows us that naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding and meaning.”
How many emotions can you name? Most people can name just three; some version of mad, glad or sad. But recent research indicates that having a wider emotional vocabulary can help people not just better express what they are feeling but cope better with everyday experiences, and live happier and healthier lives. When Brene Brown turns her formidable attention to what it means to live a life full of all the emotions you know there’s something meaningful going on there.
Just knowing the words can help better regulate our emotions and respond more helpfully in all of life’s situations. Is what you’re feeling sorrow or vulnerability? Is it anger or frustration? Is it happiness or pride? How we name something shapes our experience of it. Having access to a greater breadth of emotions means we’re able to better understand what those emotions are asking of us, and what they are pointing to, or guarding against.
I’m thrilled to be joining one of my favourite wellbeing festivals this year by offering coaching around emotions.
In my 1:1 sessions at VERVE Festival this September, I’ll start to explore your emotions. We’ll figure out which emotions you welcome and which ones you deny, which ones you think of as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and which ones have something to tell you (and whether you’re ready to listen to them).
Over the 30-40 minutes of your session, we’ll get you to a place of being more familiar with all your emotions, build the confidence to explore what to do with them when they inevitably show up, and learn how they can help you find your way to what matters most in your life.
Curious about what better emotional wellbeing would look like to you? Find me near the VERVE Stage and book a session here (you’ll need to have your tickets for the Verve Festival to book a session as this is available to Verve attendees only). The cost is £25.
These sessions can help:
If you’re stuck in an emotion – like fear, stress, overwhelm, anxiety – and need to find a way through them to create more space for the things you want in your life
If you’re struggling with even the idea of bringing joy, love and happiness into your life, and want to learn how to welcome these in so you can access all they could bring
If you have an emotional blocker on something and it’s getting in your way, and you want to learn how to let go of it/ release that to get to a better place
If you are feeling lost, and need help finding your way again
If you’re feeling all the feelings – you are unsettled and unsure – and would like to get to a place of calm, peace and equilibrium
If you’re feeling none of the feelings – just numb and disconnected – and want to figure out what emotions could offer you and the significant role they could play in your life
If you’ve looked at life in all the ways, except this one, and you’re curious to learn how transformational emotions coaching can be.
Excited, optimistic, or even hopeful about what this might do for you? Join me in getting curious about your emotional life.
For more information, you can email me at claire@ifloststarthere.com or book your emotions coaching session at VERVE Festival here.
If you’re not able to get to VERVE Festival this year and you’re still interested in Emotions Coaching, don’t worry, we can still work together. Book a quick call out to see how I can support you to find your way to better emotional wellbeing in your life.
“You are what you feel, as long as you can describe it.”
