Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
Week 4: Chapter 3 — Notice
Read Chapter 3 of Untangle Your Emotions. This is the first step of Jennie's five-step framework.
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The simplest step is often the hardest: before you can do anything about what you feel, you have to actually stop and notice that you feel something at all.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1."Notice" is Step 1 of Jennie's five-step process. Why does she think noticing is harder than it sounds? What gets in the way of simply pausing to acknowledge that something is happening inside you?
2.Jennie describes how busyness, distraction, and productivity can function as emotional anesthesia — we stay too busy to feel. What are the specific ways you tend to numb or distract yourself when difficult emotions begin to surface?
3.She talks about learning to notice the physical signals of emotion — a tight chest, a clenched jaw, a knot in the stomach. Have you ever experienced an emotion first in your body before you could name it in your mind? What was that like?