This Life of Ours

Episode 61: When You Stop Spiraling


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Many adults are walking around with grown-up responsibilities but still reacting from emotional patterns that were formed years ago.

In this episode, Emily explores the difference between emotional childhood and emotional adulthood—not as a judgment, but as an opportunity for awareness.

Emotional childhood often sounds like:

  • This shouldn't be happening.
  • They shouldn't act that way.
  • Someone needs to fix this.
  • I can't feel okay until they change.
  • Emotional adulthood sounds like:

    • I don't like this, but I can handle it.
    • I can feel disappointment without falling apart.
    • Other people are allowed to be themselves.
    • I am responsible for how I respond.
    • You'll learn how emotional maturity isn't about becoming unemotional. It's about developing the capacity to experience life without making every challenge mean something has gone wrong.

      Questions to Consider:

      • Where are you waiting for someone else to change before you allow yourself peace?
      • What emotion are you currently resisting?
      • What would emotional adulthood look like in your life this week?
      • Favorite Quote from the Episode:
        "Emotional adulthood begins when we stop asking life to be easier and start becoming stronger in how we meet it."

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        This Life of OursBy birch & stone coaching collective