How to Feel Your Feelings: Meeting Anxiety

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 how to let go of anxiety.

🌀 The surface signal of something deeper

Anxiety isn’t the root problem. It’s just the messenger.

Beneath it, there’s often something deeper: a feeling we’ve learned we can’t safely feel.

• Instead of feeling fear, we spin into overthinking.
• Instead of feeling shame, we stay chronically tense.
• Instead of feeling anger, we get stuck in indecision and self-doubt

Anxiety becomes the body’s way of trying to control or avoid what feels too much.

But the more we try to fight or fix anxiety directly, the more it grips us. Because anxiety doesn’t want to be fixed...it wants to be heard and felt.

🔑 In this workshop, we’ll explore how to work with anxiety as a doorway to something deeper. Not a 'mental health issue' to be pushed away.

When we slow down and meet the deeper feelings beneath it, we can experience real peace and freedom from anxiety.

We will learn to identify, understand and let go of anxiety:

✅ What is anxiety? Why does it exist?

✅ Why trying to sooth/relax/reason does NOT work

✅ Why anxiety is not about what you think it's about

✅ Practical tools for deeply letting go of anxiety

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.

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.

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.

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

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"I've consumed so much content on emotions and trauma over the years, and your work has given me more than all of it”

“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.”

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