How To Feel Your Feelings: Meeting Fear

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 fear.

Fear runs deeper in our lives than we often realise. It shapes what we say, what we do, what we avoid…quietly defining the limits of what is possible.

And it's a cunning badger 🦡. Fear rarely shows up as “I’m terrified”. It likes to wear disguises.

It might show up as hesitation. Or just being ‘careful’ or ‘nice’. Or as a detailed plan, a postponement or a reasonable excuse (“I’m just not that kind of person”).

We’re not only afraid of failing or being seen or getting it wrong. We’re afraid of feeling fear itself—because it has rarely felt safe to admit our fear to ourselves or others.

But fear softens when we stop pushing it away. When we stop trying to ‘conquer’ or bulldoze it.

In this workshop, we will learn how to befriend fear—to understand it and feel it without getting overwhelmed. From there, we open up new possibilities for our life :)

Together, we will explore:

✅ What fear is and how it shows up in the body

✅ Our clever coping mechanisms for avoiding fear

✅ Practical tools to safely feel our fear, so it can soften

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

“Your workshops have genuinely changed the trajectory of my life”.

"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.”

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

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