Moving Out of Isolation and Feeling Feelings - June - ACA Speaker

June shares her personal journey of overcoming isolation and learning to process difficult emotions. She discusses how isolation served as a coping mechanism in her childhood but hindered her adult recovery. June emphasizes the importance of feeling feelings, even the painful ones, as a crucial step in healing and confronting past trauma. She shares her struggles with pity versus empathy, the fear of rejection and abandonment, and how she’s actively working on self-compassion and self-soothing through step work and journaling. June offers a powerful message of hope and resilience, highlighting that this challenging work is possible and rewarding.