Mar 9, 2020 · Buffering is an incredibly common habit, so I wanted to take this blog to walk you through what buffering is and how to shift away from this behaviour.

However, we all know that buffering is never a long-term solution for managing our emotions, so is there an alternative? This week, I’m introducing you to a tool I call conscious distraction.

Buffering is an incredibly common habit, so I wanted to take this episode to walk you through what buffering is, how to identify it, and how to gently shift away from this behavior.

And when buffering, well, isn’t buffering at all, but rather a form of deep self-love. I understand so deeply why we buffer or seek to push away our emotions, to cover them up instead of feeling them.

My darling, I am wrong all the time. And that’s okay. What this whole struggle comes down to is about false control and the false comfort of false control. Fighting for people to think about you and the …

Buffering is anything we do to detach from our feelings, to push our feelings aside. I think we can use the self-blame of regret, the beating ourselves up, to buffer or distract ourselves from the deeper …

And B, number two, that buffering or attempt to push the feelings away doesn’t actually help you in the long run. All of this nerdiness about how rejection impacts us on so many levels is an important …

Because it’s buffering against them before you can process those feelings through your body and can come into a different relationship with them. And it’s important to note, that brain pattern isn’t …

You can call it thought swapping, emotional or spiritual bypass, it’s a way of buffering, of not doing what the thought work protocol is built for, which is helping you to feel your feels. And it’s a very common …

Then when I got home, I was able to stay with myself instead of buffering. I felt the urge to buffer. Come on now, I'm a human. But I didn't, right? I Ep #218: Somatics and Interdependence Feminist …