Advice
The Big Deal About Feels

Welcome back everyone.
Dr. Oliver Drakeford here with a small video to discuss a big topic.
I wanted to take a second to just get into why US therapists are so into feelings, because I don’t think as a profession we do a very good job of explaining what their importance is to relationships and to ourselves.
So this part of the course is all about feelings.
Before we go on, let’s just get real clear on the distinctions between emotions and feelings.
Don’t get too hung up on this because I use them interchangeably and I think most people do.
But there is a technical difference between an emotion and a feeling.