Feeling emotions thoroughly is an aspect of returning to a felt sense of wholeness.

There’s a trend I’ve seen though:
It is to push oneself into feeling AALLLL the grief, AAALLLL the anger and AAAALLLLL the sadness (or the fear or pain) as intensely and profoundly as possible because the belief seems to be that then that “topic is done”.

My experience from fight, flight and freeze responses in the body is:

When there is freeze, the freeze doesn’t want to be met with sledgehammer dedication of “lemme just feel that and move through it”.
When we do this we might break the ice and that is all.
We then have scattered ice.
Not flow.

Whereas when we meet the freeze (which might be fear, terror, loneliness, shyness, insecurity, physical pain …) with the warmth of simple awareness – it can melt.

And molten ice has the chance to gently flow..