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The Function of Emotions - Skill #3/30 - Therapy in a Nutshell

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Emotions aren't just bad things that happen to us, emotions serve a function and if we want to learn to work through them we have to honor the purpose of core emotions in our lives.

Emotions Serve Important Functions Emotions aren’t just “bad things that happen to us” they serve at least three important functions in our lives-and if we want to learn to process through them and resolve them, we have to honor the function of core emotions. The Gift of Pain Have you ever heard about the children born without pain receptors? It’s an incredibly rare congenital condition, it only affects around 100 people in the whole world and on the surface it sounds amazing- how would it be to never feel physical pain- cool right? Well actually, it’s a nightmare- these little kids who…

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