4 WAYS TO STOP FEELING EMPTY | HOW TO STOP FEELING EMPTY INSIDE

HOW TO STOP FEELING EMPTY INSIDE: Here are 4 WAYS TO STOP FEELING EMPTY I've used thousands of times over the past twenty years with my own patients when asked HOW DO I STOP FEELING EMPTY and HOW TO FILL THAT EMPTY FEELING? CHRONIC FEELINGS OF EMPTINESS are common, especially to those which a history of CHILDHOOD TRAUMA OR NEGLECT. Although occasional empty feelings are normal, chronic emptiness is not and often represents an unhealed wound from earlier life. What are those feelings trying to tell you: about loneliness and unfulfilled needs? Often we try and "fill" the feeling with alcohol, drugs, gambling, shopping, sex or other addictions and find we are left feeling even worse. That is because the empty feeling is not "fillable." Instead, we need to heal. In this video, I offer four simple steps to begin that process.

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00:00 Start
00:058 Causes of Chronic Emptiness
01:31 Abuse and Neglect
02:20 Unhealed Wound
03:51 What do we do with these empty feelings?
04:03 Stop Avoiding and Distracting
04:12 Do Not be Afraid to Look into the Empty Feeling
04:35 An exercise to examine the Empty Feeling
06:20 What is the unmet need?
06:43 Loneliness
07:07 Disillusionment
07:21 Holding onto the Past
07:44 Dreams
08:58 Take Time off from the Emptiness
09:01 Take Care of your body
10:01 Create Something
10:34 Help Someone Else
11:46 Review





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