Episode 40: Varvara Erochina on Why we Self-sabotage and How to Hold the Good
“Emotional flooding happens when we forget who we are and we over identify with the experience we're having.”
-Varvara Erochina, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Varvara Erochina. Varvara's work as a somatic depth coach, teacher and facilitator was born of her own unrelenting devotion to personal and collective healing. Varvara is the founder of Be With through which she offers a multi-disciplinary approach to healing, combining Gestalt psychotherapy, spiritual care, peer support, coaching and somatic trauma resolution. As the creator of How to Feel, a six week course offering education and embodied practice for feeling your feelings, Varvara is passionate about making psychoeducation accessible to more people. She is the creator of Cards for Self-Care and has supported hundreds of clients through 1-1 and group coaching, workshops, retreats, classes and more. She is a queer femme and Russian immigrant invested in mutual liberation and relationships of interdependant care. In this episode, Madison and Varvara speak on self sabotage and why we destroy the goodness in our life. They dive into rising the emotional wave, building capacity for joy and the reality of our daily experience of healing.
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
Self sabotage and why things fall apart when we are well
Learning to hold the goodness in our life
What emotional flooding is
How we forget we are the person experiencing the emotional wave
Building capacity for overwhelming experiences, including joy
Healing through unfinished business
Using urgency to help you recognize emotional flooding
Hyper-arousal, anxiety and high-achievers
Power over vs power under and how we use both to control others
Facing our past and ancestral trauma to build capacity
The reality of our daily experience of healing
