When our emotions stick around for a prolonged period of time or keep coming back, it is helpful to have a healthy outlet for expressing them. These ten emotion-releasing activities will support your connection to yourself and others, improve your health and help you live more authentically.

Most of us didn’t get much help around healthy ways to process emotions and as a result developed coping strategies and habits that may start causing trouble later on in life. Learn about what emotions are, why they are important and how to process them in healthy ways in this article.

What happens to our nervous system when you feel anxious? Why do we disconnect from the present moment when we’re anxious? Practise these grounding techniques that can help you come back to the ‘here and now’. Learn about why they help when you’re anxious and how they can prevent anxiety long-term.

Learn about the way your beliefs and self-talk link to your anxiety. Where do our beliefs come from? What have they got to do with feeling anxious? How do the things you say to yourself impact how you feel? What to do with beliefs that no longer serve you? Why understanding your triggers helps?

Understanding our anxiety helps manage it and minimise its impacts on our life. We look at how our nervous system responds to perceived threats; why unpacking your experience is important; why therapy helps and how other emotions and the stories we tell ourselves about them impact our anxiety.