Why Avoiding Your Feelings Keeps You Stuck (And How to Finally Process Them)
Release Date: 03/13/2026
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info_outlineMost of us don’t avoid healing… we avoid feeling.
Therapist Kalona Stone explains why trauma stays stuck in the body, why emotional numbness is so common among healthcare workers, and the simple practice that can help you start processing what you’ve been carrying.
Including a live emotional processing exercise you can try yourself.
Together we explore:
• Why avoiding emotions often keeps trauma stuck
• The difference between thinking about feelings and actually feeling them
• Why healthcare workers often suppress emotions to survive their jobs
• The long-term impact of pandemic trauma on nurses and healthcare professionals
• Compassion fatigue and how to avoid absorbing everyone else’s pain
• Simple practices to reset your nervous system during a stressful shift
• How to release emotional weight at the end of a difficult day
• Why healing isn’t a one-time event but an ongoing process
Kalona also walks through a live guided emotional awareness exercise, demonstrating how anyone can begin reconnecting with what their body and emotions are trying to communicate.
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