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
  

Episode 2: Emotions vs. Feelings: Reconnecting to Your Body’s Emotional Truth

Ever wondered what emotions really are—or why they sometimes feel so confusing?

In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren Carlisle Brown breaks down one of the most foundational pieces of emotional wellness: understanding the difference between emotions and feelings.

You’ll learn how emotions show up as instinctive, physical sensations in the body—while feelings are the meanings and stories we attach to those sensations. Lauren also explores why so many of us lose connection with our emotional truth and how cultural messages, trauma, and societal conditioning (like “don’t cry” or “be polite no matter what”) teach us to disconnect from our bodies.

This conversation is both grounding and eye-opening. It’s an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and begin noticing what your body is trying to tell you—without judgment, without rushing to fix it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The key difference between emotions and feelings
  

• How your body communicates through sensation—and why it matters
  

• The cultural and personal factors that disconnect us from our emotions
  

• Why emotions are “energy in motion” and the true fuel for your life
  

• A simple weekly practice to help you start noticing what you feel
  

Practice for this week

When you notice a physical sensation, tightness in your chest, butterflies in your belly, a lump in your throat—pause and check in. Ask yourself:

“Is this physical… or emotional?”

You don’t have to label it. Just notice. That’s where emotional fluency 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

Episode 1: Welcome to All the Feels, Learning to Feel Again

If you’ve ever been told you’re too much, too sensitive, or too emotional, this podcast is for you.

In this first episode of All the Feels, host Lauren Carlisle Brown opens up about her own journey from emotional overwhelm and control to deep, embodied connection. She shares how years of resisting her emotions led to exhaustion and burnout—and how everything began to change when she finally learned to feel instead of fix.

Lauren invites you to explore what it really means to harness the power of your emotions and reconnect with your nervous system so you can show up with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.

This episode is your invitation to slow down, breathe, and remember: your emotions aren’t problems to solve—they’re messages meant to be received.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your emotions aren’t “too much”—they’re important information
  

• What happens when you stop trying to control and start allowing
  

• How to build safety in your body so you can feel without fearing your feelings
  

• The moment Lauren decided to finally stop resisting her feelings
  

• What it means to come home to yourself through emotional awareness
  

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