#256: 9 Questions to Help Someone Process Their Own Challenging Emotions

Here are some questions about our emotional bandwidth & capacity when dealing with someone that is emotionally charged: 

 

Whose emotional state impacts your emotional state? 

 

How effective are you at being able to hold space for someone whose emotional w/out letting their emotional state impact / affect you? 

 

Who is impacted by YOUR emotional state? 

 

What can you do to better prepare yourself to handle others’ various emotional states? 

 

Are there specific people that have a tendency to trigger you? 

 

Why do they trigger you? 

 

What questions could you have “on-hand” to help an emotional friend, colleague or family member process their challenging emotions? 

 

Here are 9 questions to help someone process their own challenging emotions: 

 

1.) What emotions are you feeling right now? 

2.) How are those emotions impacting you? 

3.) What meaning have you attached to those emotions? 

4.) What stories are attached to those emotions? 

5.) How accurate are the stories attached to those emotions? 

6.) Where are those emotions coming from? 

7.) Are these emotions a pattern or theme?  

8.) How can you work through those emotions? 

9.) What can you learn from those emotions? 

 

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