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Why Connecting With Your Emotions Will Connect You With Others (with Steven Kitajima)
Coming from an Asian immigrant family, raised in America’s masculine culture, emotions and feelings are the last thing we would talk about. But in that suppression we also push away the people around us. It’s why we end up in either stagnant relationships, or feeling lonely that no one can relate to us because we’ve been used to dealing with it on our own.
The first step to curbing this loneliness and connecting with others on a deeper level is to connect back to your own emotions. It’s to become aware of those sensations and situations that make us uncomfortable and to purposefully lean into it. When you can understand your own emotions better, what triggers them, and be confident enough to express them, it gives other people a better understanding of who you are and how to connect with you as well.
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In this episode, we talk about:
- Why men might struggle talking about emotions because of limited outside structures placed upon us
- Steven's journey in starting his podcast
- How it's easier to not connect with other humans because of the convenience of technology, and fear of taking emotional risks
- Not admitting to and talking about emotions makes it that much easier to become stagnant in your life
- How to create more connectedness by expressing your emotions
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Resources:
- Check out Steven’s podcast at https://www.bettermenpodcast.com or wherever you find your podcasts.
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Become a Patron to support this content: http://patreon.com/humanup.
Send me a voice message with any thoughts, feedback, praise, takeaways, or stories you want to share with this podcast at http://victorung.com/podcast.
Subscribe to get your free list of 11 Emotional Intelligence exercises and to get updates on this podcast and blog at http://victorung.com/subscribe.
Join the waitlist for the free group coaching program to learn how to better manage both our technology and our emotions: http://victorung.com/eqtechsurvey.
If you’re a reader, clap for my writing on Medium: http://medium.com/@victorung.
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Coming from an Asian immigrant family, raised in America’s masculine culture, emotions and feelings are the last thing we would talk about. But in that suppression we also push away the people around us. It’s why we end up in either stagnant relationships, or feeling lonely that no one can relate to us because we’ve been used to dealing with it on our own.
The first step to curbing this loneliness and connecting with others on a deeper level is to connect back to your own emotions. It’s to become aware of those sensations and situations that make us uncomfortable and to purposefully lean into it. When you can understand your own emotions better, what triggers them, and be confident enough to express them, it gives other people a better understanding of who you are and how to connect with you as well.
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In this episode, we talk about:
- Why men might struggle talking about emotions because of limited outside structures placed upon us
- Steven's journey in starting his podcast
- How it's easier to not connect with other humans because of the convenience of technology, and fear of taking emotional risks
- Not admitting to and talking about emotions makes it that much easier to become stagnant in your life
- How to create more connectedness by expressing your emotions
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Resources:
- Check out Steven’s podcast at https://www.bettermenpodcast.com or wherever you find your podcasts.
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Become a Patron to support this content: http://patreon.com/humanup.
Send me a voice message with any thoughts, feedback, praise, takeaways, or stories you want to share with this podcast at http://victorung.com/podcast.
Subscribe to get your free list of 11 Emotional Intelligence exercises and to get updates on this podcast and blog at http://victorung.com/subscribe.
Join the waitlist for the free group coaching program to learn how to better manage both our technology and our emotions: http://victorung.com/eqtechsurvey.
If you’re a reader, clap for my writing on Medium: http://medium.com/@victorung.
--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/victorung/messageHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get full access to Human Up at humanup.substack.com/subscribe