Ep. 137 - Feelings Check-In: Listening To Your Emotions

It's easy to lose touch with our emotional landscape. We become experts at asking others how they're doing while neglecting to check in with our own feelings. This episode of the Journal Party Podcast is designed to help you reconnect with your inner emotional world through five thoughtful journaling prompts.

Host Alex Gallner guides listeners through a gentle but powerful exploration of emotions, encouraging authentic self-awareness without judgment. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or simply curious about your emotional state, this episode provides a safe space to honor whatever feelings arise.

The episode features five carefully crafted journal prompts that help you identify current emotions, listen to what your feelings have been trying to communicate, explore avoided emotions, visualize your emotional weather system, and cultivate desired feelings. Each prompt is followed by instrumental music, giving you time to write and reflect at your own pace.

This guided journaling session is perfect for anyone looking to develop emotional intelligence, practice mindfulness, or simply create a moment of pause in their busy day. The prompts are designed to be accessible whether you're new to journaling or have been practicing for years.

Alex emphasizes that feelings are messengers carrying important information about our needs, boundaries, and desires. By regularly checking in with our emotions, we gather the data needed to make choices that align with our authentic selves.

Key topics covered include emotional awareness, mindfulness, self-compassion, emotional intelligence, mental health, personal growth, guided journaling, meditation, self-care, authentic living, emotional regulation, inner work, mindfulness practice, psychological wellness, and emotional healing.

Whether you're dealing with stress, transitions, relationship challenges, or simply want to develop a deeper relationship with yourself, this episode offers practical tools for emotional check-ins that can be used anytime you need to reconnect with your inner world.

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Transcript

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What's up party people? You're listening to the Journal Party podcast where every week we get together for a little guided journaling jam sash. My name is Alex Goner and I'll be your host. So here's how it works. I'll give you a journal prompt and a groove, and you just start writing. After a few minutes, you'll hear a little bell that sounds like this, and we'll move on to the next prompt. After a couple minutes, you'll hear that bell again, and we'll move on to the next prompt and we'll just keep going on like that. Until we're finished, feel free to write 'em whatever you like. And if you finish before the bell, you can try to dig deeper and elaborate or just chill out and enjoy the tunes. Don't overthink it. There's no wrong way to do this. So welcome to the Party Journal Party. Hey, party people. So I was sitting in my car yesterday after a really busy day, and I caught myself just existing, like my body was there, but I wasn't really present with what I was actually feeling. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Like I was running on autopilot, just moving from task to task without pausing to ask myself the simple question, how am I really doing right now? How do I really feel right now? It got me thinking about how we can go days, weeks, even months, hopefully not longer without genuinely checking in with our emotional landscape. We're so good at asking other people how they're doing, but when was the last time you sat down and honestly assessed your own feelings without judgment or the need to fix anything? Today we're gonna be jamming through five journal prompts to help you reconnect with your emotional world and give yourself the gift of authentic self-awareness. So open up that journal and let's get this party started. Here comes prompt number one right now in this exact moment. What emotion is sitting closest to the surface? Don't think too hard about it. Just notice what's there and describe it like you're meeting this feeling for the first time. Prompt number two. If your emotions from this past week could have a conversation with you, what would they want you to know? What have they been trying to tell you that you might have been too busy to hear? Prompt number three, write about a feeling you've been avoiding or pushing down lately. What would it feel like to give this emotion some space instead of resistance? Prompt number four. Imagine your emotional world as a weather system right now. Are you experiencing sunny skies, storm clouds, a gentle breeze, or something else? Entirely. Describe your inner weather. And what it needs. Prompt number five. What's one feeling you'd like to cultivate more of in your life? How can you create space for this emotion to grow naturally? All right, party people. How'd that feel? Hopefully pretty good. If not good. At least. Hopefully you felt something. It's important to be tuned into that your feelings aren't just random visitors passing through. They're messengers carrying important information about your needs. Boundaries and desires. When we take time to genuinely check in with our emotional world, we're gathering the data that we need to make choices that actually align with who we are. Remember, there's no such thing as a wrong feeling. There are just feelings that need to be acknowledged there, honored, and sometimes gently guided in a healthier direction. If you want to continue this emotional check-in practice, go ahead. Check out our app where you'll find even more guided journaling programs with mood and energy tracking, as well as a really supportive community of people who understand that feelings are information not inconveniences. I. You can also connect with me on Instagram at journal party, omg, where I share daily inspiration and behind the scene moments from this beautiful journey of self-discovery that we're all on together. And if today's episode resonated with you, I'd be so grateful if you could leave us a review. It really helps other people find this community, and it reminds me that we're doing something that matters. So drop us a line. Don't forget to join us every Wednesday night at 6:00 PM Pacific Standard time for journal party live. It's a free live stream where we journal together and then we share our insights at the end. It's been growing every week and it's a ton of fun. You can tune into that through our YouTube channel, our private Facebook group, or even directly through our app, and the links for all of those are in the show notes. Lastly, thank you for taking this time to honor your feelings today, the world. Really needs more people who are brave enough to feel deeply and live authentically. So thank you for doing this work and see you next time. Party on.