🎧 Episode 11: Co-Regulation — How Calm Calms and Stress Stresses
Welcome back to All the Feels with Lauren Carlisle Brown. 💛
If you’re listening in real time, this is the first week of January 2026, and Lauren is kicking off the new year by shifting the podcast into a powerful next chapter.
The first 10 episodes were designed to lay the foundation: the philosophy, the tools, and the how of feeling—not just why feelings matter, but how to work with them in real life.
Now we’re moving from self-focused emotional skill-building into something deeply relational: co-regulation.
Co-regulation is the (often invisible) process of one person’s nervous system influencing another’s—through breath, tone, posture, eye contact, presence, touch, and even silence. It’s why someone’s steadiness can soften your body… and someone’s stress can spike your nervous system instantly.
This episode explores both sides of that dynamic:
And most importantly, Lauren teaches how co-regulation is not just “sweet” or “supportive”—it’s biological, deeply wired into your system, and also a skill you can practice.
✨ In this episode, you’ll learn
🧠 Co-Regulation, Explained Simply
Co-regulation is what happens when one nervous system helps another nervous system settle.It’s the “exhale” you feel around someone steady.
It’s the way your child calms when you stay grounded.It’s why a hug, a handhold, or a quiet presence can undo you in the best way.It’s also why tension spreads fast—because your body is always reading the room and adjusting.
🌿 Reflection Practice for the Week:
As you move through this week, notice:
This isn’t about judgment. It’s about honoring your body’s wisdom.
Take the next step in your self-care journey:
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Episode 10: Inside the Feeling Room: Processing Emotions in Real Time
Welcome back to All the Feels. 💛
Today, Lauren Carlisle Brown invites you into “the feeling room” — a rare, unedited look at what emotional processing actually sounds like in real time.
In this deeply vulnerable episode, Lauren shares a real recording of herself working through self-doubt, fear, and comparison on the very first day she sat down to record this podcast. You’ll hear how she uses breath, compassion, and truth-telling to move from overwhelm to calm — and how creating safety in the body allows emotions to shift and release instead of staying stuck.
This isn’t a conversation about feelings. It’s a demonstration of how to be with them, how to meet what’s hard with softness, curiosity, and care.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What emotional processing actually sounds like in real life
How to talk to your emotions instead of about them
Simple ways to regulate your nervous system when emotions feel intense
Why compassion and curiosity create emotional safety
How to move through self-doubt without letting it take over
Reflection for You
As you listen, notice what comes up in your own body. Which emotions feel familiar? Which ones do you resist?
Remember — you can do this work too. You can learn to hold space for your emotions in a way that heals.
TIME SENSITIVE OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive, one hour can make all the difference.
Take the next step in your self-care journey:
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
🌿 Episode 9: The Art of Allowing Your Emotions
Welcome back to All the Feels, sweet friends. 💛
In today’s episode, Lauren guides you into the final (and most transformational) part of the Emotional Flow Map: Allowing.
If reacting, resisting, and avoiding create distance between you and what you feel… allowing is the moment you turn toward yourself. Allowing is how you complete emotional experiences, integrate what you’ve been carrying, and build the self-trust that creates real emotional freedom.
Lauren shares why allowing isn’t about liking an emotion, fixing it, analyzing it, or trying to “get over it.” Allowing is simply the willingness to be with what’s happening in your body — one small moment at a time — with compassion instead of argument.
You’ll also learn the foundational four-step framework that sits underneath every emotional processing tool Lauren teaches: Notice it. Name it. Narrate it. Nurture it.
This episode includes grounding practices to create internal safety before you go inward, plus relatable examples (anxiety, joy, grief) so you can hear what allowing sounds like in real life.
💫 In this episode, you’ll learn:
🧭 The 4 Steps of Allowing
Lauren teaches the simplest, most accessible version of allowing, something anyone can begin practicing today:
🌬️ A Safety-First Reminder
Before allowing, Lauren emphasizes the importance of grounding:
If safety isn’t available, emotionally, physically, or relationally it may not be the right moment to go inward.
In those moments, you can draw from other tools like:
✨ Examples You’ll Hear
Lauren walks through what allowing can look like with:
TIME SENSITIVE OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive, one hour can make all the difference.
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook, Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Episode 8: When We Don’t Want to Feel - The Truth About Avoiding Our Emotions
Welcome back to All the Feels, sweet friends. 💛
In this episode, Lauren Carlisle Brown takes a compassionate, honest look at one of the most common — and misunderstood — ways we handle our emotions: avoiding them.
Lauren explains what emotional avoidance really is, how it shows up in everyday life (often without us realizing), and why behaviors like overworking, overeating, scrolling, overdrinking, shopping, or “keeping busy” can become default ways of coping when feelings feel like too much.
She also acknowledges that some of the topics in this episode — like addiction and overuse of substances or behaviors — can feel heavy. With deep care, Lauren invites you to listen with an open heart, reminding you that avoidance is not a sign of failure but a very human attempt to find relief.
From there, she gently guides you into a powerful reframe: while unconscious avoiding can create problems over time, there is a way to work with this pattern more lovingly through something she calls a supportive pause — a form of conscious avoiding that protects your system without numbing you out.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What Is a Supportive Pause?
Lauren introduces the idea of a supportive pause — an intentional, gentle way to step back from overwhelming feelings without abandoning yourself.
A supportive pause might look like:
The key is that a supportive pause:
It’s not about escaping your feelings forever. It’s about creating enough space so you can eventually come back to them with more steadiness, clarity, and care.
A Gentle Invitation for the Week
This week, Lauren invites you to notice:
No judgment. Just compassionate awareness.
Every moment of noticing is a step toward deeper emotional safety and self-trust.
TIME SENSITIVE OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive, one hour can make all the difference.
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook, Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Episode 7: Not All Resistance Is Bad, The Gentle Art of Holding Your Emotions
Welcome back to All the Feels, sweet friends. 💛
In today’s episode, Lauren Carlisle Brown takes you into the second part of the Emotional Flow Map: resistance, and why it’s not the villain it’s often made out to be.
Resisting emotions is one of the most misunderstood parts of emotional life. Many of us have been taught that pushing feelings away is “wrong” or “unhealthy,” but Lauren offers a compassionate reframe: resistance can be harmful when it’s unconscious… and incredibly supportive when it’s intentional.
This episode explores how culture, family systems, and personal conditioning teach us to resist our emotions, why resisting becomes a reflex, and how conscious resistance can actually be a form of wisdom, stability, and self-protection.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
When Conscious Resistance Is Helpful
Lauren shares three moments when resisting on purpose is the right move:
• Functional moments: When life requires steadiness and presence
• Boundaried moments: When the environment or people around you aren't safe for emotional vulnerability
• Caring moments: When pausing your emotion allows you to show up for someone else
This isn’t avoidance, it’s emotional discernment.
Conscious resistance says: “I feel this. I’ll tend to it later.”
That’s emotional maturity, not emotional suppression.
A Practice for Your Week
When you notice yourself resisting a feeling, simply name it:
“I’m holding something right now. I’ll come back to it.”
Then, when you have the capacity, return to it gently.
This small act builds deep emotional trust and self-connection.
TIME SENSITIVE OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive, one hour can make all the difference.
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook, Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Episode 6: From Outbursts to Awareness — The Art of Conscious Reacting
Welcome back to All the Feels, sweet friends. 💛In today’s episode, Lauren Carlisle Brown takes you deeper into the first part of the Emotional Flow Map: Reacting. While reacting often gets labeled as “bad,” Lauren helps reframe it as something completely human, extremely common, and often misunderstood.
Emotions are energy in motion, so it makes perfect sense that reacting — slamming a door, snapping, venting, stomping your feet — becomes our default when that energy has nowhere else to go. The goal isn’t to stop reacting altogether. It’s to understand why it happens and to learn how to shift from unconscious reacting (the kind that leaks out sideways) to conscious reacting (the kind that releases emotion without harm).
This episode explores why reacting feels so instinctive, how culture trains us into reactivity, and how to create new patterns rooted in intention, awareness, and compassion. Lauren also walks you through powerful examples of what conscious reacting actually looks like — and how repair helps rebuild trust after inevitable messy human moments.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Conscious Reacting Tools You’ll Hear About
These aren’t about suppressing your feelings. They’re about letting your body do what it’s trying to do anyway — with awareness and intention.
A Gentle Reminder
You will still have moments of unconscious reacting.
We all do.
What matters next is repair, circling back with honesty, softness, and accountability. Repair strengthens connection, builds trust, and reconnects you with yourself and the people you love.
TIME SENSITIVE OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive…one hour can make all the difference.
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Take the next step in your self-care journey:
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook
Episode 5: The Emotional Flow Map: 4 Ways We Deal with our Feelings
Hello, sweet friends, welcome back to All the Feels with Lauren Carlisle Brown, your emotions coach.
In this episode, Lauren introduces a simple but powerful framework she calls The Emotional Flow Map — four natural ways humans are wired to handle emotions: react, resist, avoid, and allow.
Instead of labeling some “good” and others “bad,” Lauren invites you into a softer, more honest relationship with your emotional life. You’ll learn why all four responses exist for a reason, how each one can be supportive and harmful, and why shame has no place in emotional work.
This episode is all about awareness without judgment — seeing your emotional autopilot clearly, so you can eventually choose something new with compassion, not force.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
A Simple Awareness Practice from the Episode
This week, Lauren invites you to gently watch yourself with curiosity:
No fixing. No forcing. Just noticing.Awareness without judgment is where real emotional change begins.
TIME SENSITIVE BLACK FRIDAY OFFER:
🔥 Ready for a real shift? I’m offering a one-hour, highly focused private session: the Emotional Breakthrough Session.
It’s designed to help you stop looping in the same emotional patterns, feel deeply seen, access your inner wisdom, and begin stepping into a new version of yourself.
Let’s move from stuck to alive — one hour can make all the difference.
Take the next step in your self-care journey:
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook
Episode 4: Emotions Microdosing: How to Feel Big Feelings in Small, Supported Doses
Welcome back to All the Feels! 💛
If you’ve ever feared that fully feeling your emotions might pull you under or last forever, this episode is for you.
Today, Lauren Carlisle Brown introduces a powerful, gentle practice she created called Emotions Microdosing — a way to feel your feelings in small, intentional doses that build nervous system safety without letting emotions take over.
Born from a season of deep personal heartbreak, Emotions Microdosing is the practice of allowing yourself to feel just a little at a time — one breath, one song, or one brief moment — before intentionally coming back to the present. It’s about keeping emotions moving instead of bottling them up, so you can honor your feelings and keep functioning in daily life.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What “Emotions Microdosing” is and how it works
How to feel your emotions without getting stuck in them
The truth about why big emotions sometimes feel endless
How to balance emotional release with everyday responsibilities
Why microdosing emotions creates long-term emotional resilience
Try This Practice
When a wave of emotion hits, try this: 1️⃣ Set a small time window (5–60 seconds, or one song). 2️⃣ Breathe and let yourself fully feel the emotion. 3️⃣ Intentionally come back — notice your surroundings, ground your feet, and return to your day.
These small moments of feeling build massive safety and self-trust over time.
Take the next step in your self-care journey:
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook
Episode 3: The Emotions Manifesto: 5 Truths That Will Change How You Feel Your Feelings
Welcome back to All the Feels!
In this powerful episode, Lauren Carlisle Brown shares the guiding principle of her work, The Emotions Manifesto, the five truths that completely transform the way we relate to our emotions.
Through years of working with clients, Lauren noticed the same emotional patterns repeating: self-judgment, fear of feeling, overthinking, emotional avoidance, and the belief that difficult feelings would last forever. These invisible blocks kept people from accessing the wisdom within their emotions.
Out of that discovery came The Emotions Manifesto, five truths that help you move through emotional resistance and come home to yourself:
1️⃣ The way you feel always makes sense.
2️⃣ Your feelings always have something to tell you.
3️⃣ Your emotions have your best interest at heart.
4️⃣ Feelings are friends (sometimes frenemies), never problems.
5️⃣ No feeling lasts forever.
This is the foundation of emotional safety, healing, and freedom.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The 5 truths that will reshape your emotional life
Why every feeling you have makes sense (even the hard ones)
How to stop over-relying on logic and start trusting your body
How to see emotions as messengers, not enemies
A simple mindset shift that brings peace when emotions feel overwhelming
Reflect & Practice
Write down The Emotions Manifesto and keep it somewhere visible — your journal, your mirror, or your phone background. Let it remind you daily that your emotions are here to help, not harm.
When you start trusting your feelings again… you start trusting yourself.
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Freebie: The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook
Episode 2: Emotions vs. Feelings: Reconnecting to Your Body’s Emotional Truth
Ever wondered what emotions really are—or why they sometimes feel so confusing?
In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren Carlisle Brown breaks down one of the most foundational pieces of emotional wellness: understanding the difference between emotions and feelings.
You’ll learn how emotions show up as instinctive, physical sensations in the body—while feelings are the meanings and stories we attach to those sensations. Lauren also explores why so many of us lose connection with our emotional truth and how cultural messages, trauma, and societal conditioning (like “don’t cry” or “be polite no matter what”) teach us to disconnect from our bodies.
This conversation is both grounding and eye-opening. It’s an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and begin noticing what your body is trying to tell you—without judgment, without rushing to fix it.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The key difference between emotions and feelings
How your body communicates through sensation—and why it matters
The cultural and personal factors that disconnect us from our emotions
Why emotions are “energy in motion” and the true fuel for your life
A simple weekly practice to help you start noticing what you feel
Practice for this week
When you notice a physical sensation, tightness in your chest, butterflies in your belly, a lump in your throat—pause and check in. Ask yourself:
“Is this physical… or emotional?”
You don’t have to label it. Just notice. That’s where emotional fluency begins.
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com
Episode 1: Welcome to All the Feels, Learning to Feel Again
If you’ve ever been told you’re too much, too sensitive, or too emotional, this podcast is for you.
In this first episode of All the Feels, host Lauren Carlisle Brown opens up about her own journey from emotional overwhelm and control to deep, embodied connection. She shares how years of resisting her emotions led to exhaustion and burnout—and how everything began to change when she finally learned to feel instead of fix.
Lauren invites you to explore what it really means to harness the power of your emotions and reconnect with your nervous system so you can show up with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.
This episode is your invitation to slow down, breathe, and remember: your emotions aren’t problems to solve—they’re messages meant to be received.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why your emotions aren’t “too much”—they’re important information
What happens when you stop trying to control and start allowing
How to build safety in your body so you can feel without fearing your feelings
The moment Lauren decided to finally stop resisting her feelings
What it means to come home to yourself through emotional awareness
Take the next step in your self-care journey
Download The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook — Lauren’s free guide to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with what truly nourishes you.
It’s the perfect companion to the work we explore here on All the Feels.
👉 Get your free copy of The Exquisite Self-Care Handbook HERE
Connect with Lauren
Instagram: @the_emotionscoach
Website: laurencarlislebrown.com