Emotional awareness and regulation are different So many people (especially folks who feel safer intellectualizing emotions) can talk about their feelings all day long. They’re well versed in what the feelings are called but when it comes to actually feeling them there’s often a deep fear of being “too much” or that the emotion is going to take over / become overwhelming. This often results in suppressing the emotions through intellectualizing them and creates a vicious self-fulfilling cycle. Me