How a Mindfulness Practice Can Help With Alexithymia

When your emotions feel out of reach of your body, a mindfulness and embodiment practice might help. Here’s how.

On Tuesday, I introduced the topic of alexithymia, a condition characterized as a difficulty identifying and describing one’s feelings. Research has shown that alexithymia is more common in men; check out my article for Psychology Today about Why Men May Struggle to Communicate Their Feelings. Today, I’m exploring how mindfulness and embodied practices can help to reduce the experience of alexithymia. 

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Here’s what’s ahead in this email for paid subscribers:

• Experiencing alexithymia? Here’s how mindfulness can help

• Looking within: mindfulness exercise and reflection

• A special podcast announcement

• Book Club | Emotional Labor — Read along with us!

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