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Podcast: Room to Grow Podcast with Emily Gough
Episode: 407. Containment, Self-Abandonment & How to Feel Everything Without Making Others Pay for It
Description: We talk a lot about boundaries, but almost always in the context of protecting ourselves from other people. This episode is about the boundary no one talks about: the one you hold with yourself. I'm diving into containment, which is the ability to feel your emotions fully without discharging them onto someone else, and why lack of containment quietly destroys intimacy, even when you think you're "just being honest." Moreover, I truly believe that every human is capable of emotional regulation, and am pulling apart the idea floating around the New Age / polarity wo...