How To Feel Your Feelings: Creating Safety

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 creating safety in the body.

Deep feeling starts with safety

If it doesn’t feel safe to be in your body, it can be tricky to feel your feelings. And not because anything is wrong, but because your body has learned to protect you.

Many of us learned, early on, that certain emotions weren’t welcome. Maybe anger felt dangerous. Maybe sadness was ignored. Maybe joy felt like too much.

So we pushed these unsafe emotions down into the body, which began to take on the felt sense of unsafety. And then we learned to leave our bodies and to live in our heads instead.

💡In this workshop, we’ll explore why safety matters, how it gets disrupted, and how to begin rebuilding it.

This is a foundational skill for emotional healing. The more safety you can cultivate, the more capacity you’ll have to gently meet parts of yourself that once felt unsafe or overwhelming. And that’s where deep healing happens.

We will explore:

✅ How the body becomes a place of unsafety

✅ The cost of living in the mind

✅ How to create islands of safety inside yourself

✅ How to build capacity to feel without overwhelm

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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Energy for Life Fitness, Yoga & Pilates, 75 Sussex Street, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

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