How to Understand Your Emotions - Emotional Healing Through Grief & Vulnerability. This video shares a deeply personal journey of learning how to understand emotions, especially during grief, vulnerability, and life-changing moments. Many people grow up without learning how to express what they feel, and instead, they learn to hold everything inside. This conversation explores what happens when you finally begin to face your emotions and try to put words to what you are feeling inside.
- One of the most poignant moments in this story is realizing how difficult it can be to express emotions. Even with education and awareness, it is still possible to feel disconnected from your feelings. Being asked to simply complete the sentence, I feel… became overwhelming because there was no practice in naming emotions. This shows how many people silently struggle with emotional expression.
- Many people do not fully process their emotions. Instead, they store them away and continue with life as if everything is normal. Feelings are placed in compartments and ignored until something triggers them. This video highlights how emotional suppression can become a habit, especially when you are used to being strong or silent. Over time, this can make it harder to understand your own emotional state.
- Vulnerability is not always easy, especially when you are used to holding everything inside. It means to slowly open up emotionally again and admit, I don’t know how I feel. That honesty is. It is not weakness, but a step toward healing. Learning vulnerability helps people reconnect with themselves and begin understanding emotions instead of avoiding them.
- What you can learn from this video:
- how to identify and express your emotions
- Why grief can block emotional understanding
- how vulnerability leads to emotional healing and self-awareness
- ⤷ Guest:
- ⤷ Rima Desai
- ⤷ Transformational Life Coach | Spiritual Healer | Counseling Psychologist
Rima Desai is a transformational life coach, spiritual healer, and counseling psychologist on a mission to help women and children rewrite their realities from the inside out. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, she lost her mother at age 6 and spent decades navigating grief, depression, anxiety, and spiritual awakening before channeling that journey into her life’s work.
- Rima holds a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from India, a Certification in Transformational Life Coaching from the U.S., and certifications in Reiki (I, II, and Advanced), Spiritual Response Therapy, Advanced Family Tree/Lineage Work, and Aura Reading, among others. She identifies as a Starseed and Highly Sensitive Person whose spiritual journey began in childhood.
- Born to be Bold, Beautiful, and Brave, Rima challenges the limited beliefs that shape women’s current realities — and shows them what it means to Go Beyond and Make Miracles Possible.
- Connect with Rima https://www.womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/rima-desai/
- Come back June 15th for part 2.
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Deneen L. Garrett — Cultural Alchemist | Media Architect | Podcast Host
Deneen L. Garrett is the creator and host of Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation — bringing powerful conversations on visibility, leadership, wealth, and living a Dream Lifestyle™️ to Women of Color worldwide.
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