How to Feel Your Feelings: Meeting Resistance

Jul 11 Fri 11th Jul 2025
7pm – 9pm BST (UTC +01:00)
 
Energy for Life Fitness, Yoga & Pilates, Sussex Street, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, UK
 
https://dandelion.events/e/htfyf
Hosted by Drunken Buddha
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🎉 About This Event

How To Feel Your Feelings is a monthly space where we learn how to feel and heal ❤️‍🩹.

Each session explores a different theme: a specific emotion, inner experience or technique. You’re welcome to attend one or many. Each one is a complete journey in itself.

This month, we are exploring unconscious resistance and protector parts.

💪 Unconscious Resistance & Protector Parts

🥷 The hidden reason feelings stay stuck

Many people struggle to fully feel their feelings, not because they’re doing something wrong, but because part of them is unconsciously trying to protect them.

We all have protector parts: unconscious habits, beliefs, or behaviours that have learned that they must keep us safe by resisting emotional pain.

  • Instead of feeling anger, we might people-please or justify
  • Instead of feeling shame, we might deny or distract
  • Instead of feeling fear, we might shut down or go numb

These parts aren’t bad — they’re trying to help. But when we’re unaware of them, they block our healing. The feelings stay stuck.

🔑 This is the missing key in many healing journeys. Until we acknowledge these parts of us, they will sabotage our attempts to feel (and heal) deeply.

📅 Workshop Agenda

We will learn to identify, understand and work through these protector parts:

✅ Why we resist certain emotions

✅ How protector parts are created and how they show up

✅ The hidden cost of avoiding our feelings

✅ How to make resistance conscious

✅ Practical tools for working with (not against!) these parts

🐵 Why Feel Your Feelings?

When you fully feel an emotion, it moves, softens and transforms.

  • Anger becomes strength
  • Fear becomes courage
  • Shame becomes authenticity

This is how we access the wholeness, freedom, and aliveness we’re really longing for.

Not by bypassing the pain. But by learning how to meet it, feel it, and let it flow.

If you want to feel better, get better at feeling.

📝 My Approach

 

Your feelings live in your body. So I take a body-based approach that emphasises the direct experience of the body here and now.

My approach is trauma-informed, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of participants above all else.

🤩 What You Can Expect

This is a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space where the golden rule is a complete allowing of all the parts of you.

We will be exploring individual, pair and group exercises, along with lots of time for questions and sharing.

These are designed to help you:

✅ Connect safely to the body

✅ Understand what you’re feeling

✅ Let emotions process and release

✅ Notice unhelpful patterns

✅ Gently unwind resistance

Note: this is a group class, so we won’t be diving deeply into overly difficult emotions for the sake of everyone’s safety. We will be practicing foundational skills in safe ways that you can incorporate into your life.

All the exercises are optional, there is no obligation to participate or share.

👦🏻 About The Facilitator

My name is Ben, I’m a somatic therapist based in Brighton.

On my own journey recovering from alcoholism, I discovered the power of feeling as a direct path to healing. Now, I help others to do the same.

Everything I offer is rooted in my own personal experience of deeply feeling and healing.

Learn more: www.drunkenbuddha.net

✨ Testimonials

“The workshop was incredibly valuable. It was a joy to do with others and the hard parts were held with compassion and support.”

“Ben really knows his stuff. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know - exactly - how to ‘just be with’ your feelings.”

“A warm, honest space with excellent explorations of feelings. I appreciated the humour and inclusivity of the space. The work is deep, yet the space felt light and safe for gentle exploration.”

“A very well-held, safe space with a great atmosphere for processing anger in a constructive way.”

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