Being a therapist, I am in the emotion business. These physiological changes are firing off throughout every moment of the day. Some are fun, and happy, and others are pretty damn uncomfortable. If all emotions felt good, well, I would be out of a job. So, let’s talk about emotions and where they live, and how we can release them once deemed unhelpful. If you said emotions lived deep within the cerebrum in the limbic system of our brains– you are correct (AND a total nerd). W

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