Focusing Tip #322 – What if anxiety is holding off sadness?
“Is it possible that very sad feelings start to surface after anxiety gets better?” Anna writes:“I was having frequent anxiety experiences which…
Focusing Tip #321 – When your body feels like a source of torment…
“I feel deeply ashamed of a condition in my body so I can’t be with it.” A Reader writes:“It came up tonight…
Focusing Tip #320 – Holding on to Sadness
“I am addicted to sadness, longing, self-pity, wishing, dreaming, etc…” A Reader writes:Recently I identified myself as being addicted to the emotion…
Focusing Tip #319 – Deeply Listening to Childhood Triggers
“When the trigger is from my childhood, it causes me anxiety all day long.” Jenny writes:“I have a question. When I Focus…
Focusing Tip #318 – Focusing Partners: Presence With No Agenda
“Wouldn’t a silent Focusing partner be the ultimate in radical acceptance?” Joe writes: “I know you focus on ‘radical acceptance’. Letting whatever…
Focusing Tip #317 – I fall for the uninterested guys…
“I fall for the uninterested guys and I’m not interested in the nice ones… A few weeks ago we heard from Anna,…
Focusing Tip #316 – Turning toward the negative part that it is afraid
“When I finally make a decision, this part shakes its head and says ‘wrong’!” Maggie writes: “I wonder if you could talk…
Focusing Tip #315 – “My falling-in-love feelings are too strong.”
“When I’m attracted to a man, the feelings are so overwhelming…” Anna writes:“When I’m attracted to a man, my feelings are so…
Focusing Tip #314 – “Can I pursue my goal, yet have no agenda?”
“Can I pursue my goal and yet have no agenda?” Pat writes: “As I hold things in me with compassion and no…
Focusing Tip #313 – “Do I treat myself the way others have treated me?”
“Do our parts learn how to act and relate to each other from the environment we grew up in?” Paul writes:“One trouble…
