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5 Ways to Increase Your

Emotional Bandwidth

BY JODI AMAN

On a support call for therapists and coaches a few weeks ago , one of our members , Jess , was talking about her struggle accepting self-love . I had known her for a while and her transforming work helping people heal trauma . She usually emulates self-love ! Yet now she was feeling like it was all a sham and she never had really integrated it after all .

Knowing she is a highly sensitive intuitive who was isolated in an apartment in San Francisco unable to leave because the smoke from the wildfires filled the air around her home , I gave a different interpretation to what her experience .
Not being able to breathe , go outside , or be with other humans significantly decreases our emotional bandwidth . Combine these compromises with knowing that there is no

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