The Emotional Flow Map: 4 Ways We Deal with our Feelings

Hello, sweet friends, welcome back to All the Feels with Lauren Carlisle Brown, your emotions coach.

In this episode, Lauren introduces a simple but powerful framework she calls The Emotional Flow Map — four natural ways humans are wired to handle emotions: react, resist, avoid, and allow.

Instead of labeling some “good” and others “bad,” Lauren invites you into a softer, more honest relationship with your emotional life. You’ll learn why all four responses exist for a reason, how each one can be supportive and harmful, and why shame has no place in emotional work.

This episode is all about awareness without judgment — seeing your emotional autopilot clearly, so you can eventually choose something new with compassion, not force.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The Emotional Flow Map: react, resist, avoid, and allow
  
• Why none of these responses are morally “wrong” — they all make sense
  
• The difference between unconscious reacting and conscious emotional expression
  
• How resisting and avoiding can sometimes be wise, and when they start to create problems
  
• What true emotional allowing looks like (and why it’s not a gold-star requirement)
  
• A gentle awareness practice to help you notice your default patterns

A Simple Awareness Practice from the Episode

This week, Lauren invites you to gently watch yourself with curiosity:

• When a feeling pops up, do you tend to react, resist, avoid, or allow?
  
• Are certain emotions easier to allow than others?
  
• Where do you feel small irritations or stress in your body

No fixing. No forcing. Just noticing.Awareness without judgment is where real emotional change begins.

Take the next step in your self-care journey:

Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.

It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.

👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE

Connect with Lauren

Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook

Emotions Microdosing: How to Feel Big Feelings in Small, Supported Doses

Welcome back to All the Feels! 💛

If you’ve ever feared that fully feeling your emotions might pull you under or last forever, this episode is for you.

Today, Lauren Carlisle Brown introduces a powerful, gentle practice she created called Emotions Microdosing — a way to feel your feelings in small, intentional doses that build nervous system safety without letting emotions take over.

Born from a season of deep personal heartbreak, Emotions Microdosing is the practice of allowing yourself to feel just a little at a time — one breath, one song, or one brief moment — before intentionally coming back to the present. It’s about keeping emotions moving instead of bottling them up, so you can honor your feelings and keep functioning in daily life.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What “Emotions Microdosing” is and how it works
  

• How to feel your emotions without getting stuck in them
  

• The truth about why big emotions sometimes feel endless
  

• How to balance emotional release with everyday responsibilities
  

• Why microdosing emotions creates long-term emotional resilience
  

Try This Practice

When a wave of emotion hits, try this: 1️⃣ Set a small time window (5–60 seconds, or one song). 2️⃣ Breathe and let yourself fully feel the emotion. 3️⃣ Intentionally come back — notice your surroundings, ground your feet, and return to your day.

These small moments of feeling build massive safety and self-trust over time.

Take the next step in your self-care journey:

Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.

It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.

👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE

Connect with Lauren

• Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
  

• Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
  

• Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook

Episode 3: The Emotions Manifesto: 5 Truths That Will Change How You Feel Your Feelings

Welcome back to All the Feels!

In this powerful episode, Lauren Carlisle Brown shares the guiding principle of her work, The Emotions Manifesto, the five truths that completely transform the way we relate to our emotions.

Through years of working with clients, Lauren noticed the same emotional patterns repeating: self-judgment, fear of feeling, overthinking, emotional avoidance, and the belief that difficult feelings would last forever. These invisible blocks kept people from accessing the wisdom within their emotions.

Out of that discovery came The Emotions Manifesto, five truths that help you move through emotional resistance and come home to yourself:

1️⃣ The way you feel always makes sense.

2️⃣ Your feelings always have something to tell you.

3️⃣ Your emotions have your best interest at heart.

4️⃣ Feelings are friends (sometimes frenemies), never problems.

5️⃣ No feeling lasts forever.

This is the foundation of emotional safety, healing, and freedom.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The 5 truths that will reshape your emotional life
  

• Why every feeling you have makes sense (even the hard ones)
  

• How to stop over-relying on logic and start trusting your body
  

• How to see emotions as messengers, not enemies
  

• A simple mindset shift that brings peace when emotions feel overwhelming
  

Reflect & Practice

Write down The Emotions Manifesto and keep it somewhere visible — your journal, your mirror, or your phone background. Let it remind you daily that your emotions are here to help, not harm.

When you start trusting your feelings again… you start trusting yourself.

Take the next step in your self-care journey

Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.

It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.

👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE

Connect with Lauren

• Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
  

• Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
  

• Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook