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Emotional Health in The Workplace: In the dynamic environment of the modern workplace, a significant shift is becoming evident: the true challenge for those in management roles is not solely managing tasks or people, but effectively managing emotions—their own and others’.
Exploring and Lifting Trans-Generational Trauma with EmRes: Trauma is often thought of as an event that occurs in an individual’s life, leaving emotional, physical, or psychological scars.
How Our Fears and Fear-Based Beliefs Trap Us in a Small and Isolating World: Fears are an inherent part of the human experience.
Is self-care selfish? Learn why prioritizing your physical, emotional, and mental well-being is essential—not egocentric. Discover practical self-care practices, debunk common myths, and find out how Emotional Resolution with Cedric Bertelli can support your self-care journey to achieve better balance, reduce stress, and improve overall wellness.
That’s a question I get very often. No, Emotional Resolution is not intended to replace or to be a substitute for psychotherapy because psychotherapy and emotional regulation have different goals. Psychotherapy aims at intellectual and emotional exploration, cognitively identitying reasons for certain thoughts or feelings. Emotional Resolution is based in somatic sensations to bring about the resolution of unproductive or injurious feelings without the need for intellectual introspection. For me, the two approaches are complementary, and should often be used hand-in-hand.
Once a disruptive pattern is identified, it can be regulated through our natural capacity for emotional regulation. The regulation is the most straightforward part of the process. What we often find challenging is:
Recognizing a pattern
Ceasing to identify with a pattern
Taking ownership of our emotional pain instead of blaming it on external events or on our past
Accepting to let goof an emotional pattern. For all of this, psychotherapy or coaching is extremely useful.
However, once a person is ready to let go of—to resolve—the emotional difficulties from which they suffer, then emotional regulation is the best way to do so.
Why is it the best way? First of all, it is the most natural way. Our body is naturally built to regulate recurring emotions—no need to reinvent the wheel!
It is painless, both physically and emotionally. Dealing with emotional pain is hard enough, don’t you think? It is exhausting, even soul-crushing, casting a shadowy veil on every clear day we could have. Thankfully, the actual resolution is painless.
Finally, emotional resolution is fast, the physical sensations which are present during an emotion offer the most direct way to the origin of the difficulty.
Many of us, myself included, have experienced therapy. Maybe it’s a few sessions, maybe a sustained treatment course. Many find the self-examination and introspection of therapy quite useful—it helps us to understand the “script” of thoughts we play in our head. Unfortunately, understanding / accepting our emotional script and changing it are two very different things. If you feel ready to flip your script, then emotional regulation is for you.
Your body is ready. Is your mind?
