Episode 19
Emotional Dumping
Let's dive into emotional dumping. We've all done it and we've all had it done to us! Sometimes there is stuck/pent up energy inside that just NEEDS to be released. How does one do it in a healthy way? How does one be a vessel for others to do it in a healthy way? This episode will give you all the deets.
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Our
Speaker:hardships going on. There are challenges there are
Speaker:difficulties happening in the family, someone's going through
Speaker:something really hard. Something that is difficult is off trying
Speaker:time. And they need to be able to speak to someone they need to
Speaker:be able to release what they're feeling, what they're going
Speaker:through what's happening inside of them. Because it is very
Speaker:important to release it is extremely important to get out
Speaker:what you're feeling what you're thinking. But you have to be
Speaker:really careful because you can really negatively impact other
Speaker:people, too.
Speaker:Hello, fellow Earthlings. Welcome to the becoming the big
Speaker:me podcast. I'm your host, Djemilah Birnie. And together,
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Speaker:mind, body, and soul. With justice, major business, your
Speaker:spiritual badass solopreneur, and a warrior for change, you're
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Speaker:Hello, Hello,
Speaker:today I have a really awesome and important topic of
Speaker:conversation to talk about. Now, this is going to be important
Speaker:for you, if you are a human being this is important, whether
Speaker:you're a parent, whether you're in a relationship, whether
Speaker:you're a business owner, whether you interact with people ever in
Speaker:your entire life, this is for you. And this topic is important
Speaker:to talk about. And this came up recently in a client in a
Speaker:coaching clients, sessions. And I realized that I've never
Speaker:really talked about this particular subject before, on a
Speaker:public note, but this issue is something that we all deal with,
Speaker:on a constant basis, myself included, this is something that
Speaker:needs to be talked about needs to be shared. So here we are. So
Speaker:what we're talking about today is emotional dumping. What is
Speaker:emotional dumping, how to channel it and how to not do it
Speaker:to other people. So basically, emotional dumping is when you
Speaker:have stuff going on inside of you. inside of your body, you
Speaker:have different emotions, different feelings, different
Speaker:thoughts, and you don't really know how to process them very
Speaker:well. And you need to get them out, you need to release them
Speaker:from your body, you need to dump them out of yourself because
Speaker:this energy is just like stuck inside you and it doesn't feel
Speaker:good. So you just need to release it. So I don't have you
Speaker:ever heard of the concept of the chain of yelling. So like a
Speaker:higher up in an organization yells at, you know, a manager, a
Speaker:manager then yells at an employee, an employee then yells
Speaker:at, you know, goes home and yells at their kids, their kids
Speaker:go to school and then start yelling at people. So the chain
Speaker:of yelling is complete emotional dumping, that's the entire
Speaker:chain. It's someone has something inside of them that
Speaker:they need to dump off on to other people. And then once they
Speaker:dump that load on to someone else, that other person is now
Speaker:holding that emotional load inside of them. And so then they
Speaker:need to go and dump it off onto someone else. And then that just
Speaker:continues. This is something that happens all the time in
Speaker:families or loved ones when there are hardships going on.
Speaker:There are challenges there are difficulties happening in the
Speaker:family, someone's going through something really hard something
Speaker:that is difficult is trying time and they need to be able to
Speaker:speak to someone they need to be able to release what they're
Speaker:feeling, what they're going through what's happening inside
Speaker:of them because it is very important to release it is
Speaker:extremely important to get out what you're feeling what you're
Speaker:thinking. But you have to be really careful because you can
Speaker:really negatively impact Other people, depending on how you are
Speaker:emotionally dumping, depending on what state of mind, the
Speaker:person who you're dumping on is whether or not they're aware
Speaker:that of the energetic exchange that's going on or not. Because
Speaker:if they're not aware of the energetic exchange that's going
Speaker:on, they're just absorbing your emotional dumping. And all of a
Speaker:sudden, now they have this need to dump on other people. I'm
Speaker:sure you've experienced this before, have you ever had
Speaker:someone who just got really frustrated at you, and you
Speaker:couldn't figure out why. And then it just put you off in this
Speaker:other kind of weird space, and you find yourself going off on
Speaker:someone else. Or maybe it's not necessarily like they're going
Speaker:off on you, maybe it's just, they're having to release what
Speaker:they're going through at that moment. And maybe you start to
Speaker:feel like you're carrying their weight as well, you feel like
Speaker:you are now having this the same burden that they are carrying.
Speaker:And
Speaker:the thing
Speaker:with emotional dumping is, one, it's extremely important to be
Speaker:able to dump emotions. Just because you don't want to keep
Speaker:that negativity inside of you, you don't want to keep those
Speaker:thoughts and all of that stuff inside of you, you do need to
Speaker:let it out. But the second thing about emotional dumping is it
Speaker:can also
Speaker:be very dangerous
Speaker:to other people like in ways that we can't necessarily see or
Speaker:understand at the moment. So I'm going to just dive into this
Speaker:concept more how you can become a channel when people are
Speaker:dumping on you how you can become a channel so that you're
Speaker:not perpetuating the chain of yelling, you're not perpetuating
Speaker:the emotional dumping, and you're actually allowing this
Speaker:person to release without absorbing. And then I'm also
Speaker:going to talk about how you can dump your emotions, how you can
Speaker:release this pent up stuff energy, without doing it to
Speaker:others and without it affecting others. You might be asking,
Speaker:Why
Speaker:do you want to teach me how to channel it. But then you're also
Speaker:going to teach me how to not do it to others? Why can't I just
Speaker:like teach others how to not dump on me and how they should
Speaker:do it?
Speaker:Well, the thing is,
Speaker:that's not always something that is possible to do. People are
Speaker:not necessarily as quote unquote, woke as you, most
Speaker:people are not in the same headspace as you and not self
Speaker:aware. In fact, the majority of our population is extremely,
Speaker:extremely, not self aware. And you're going to find that there
Speaker:are going to be you know, loved ones in your life, who don't
Speaker:have the self awareness to not dump on you. And they, they
Speaker:don't see it as anything except for them just trying to talk to
Speaker:you about what they're going through or what's going on. So
Speaker:that's why it's important to be able to learn how to be a
Speaker:channel for these people, because it is extremely,
Speaker:extremely important to release those emotions, emotions, those
Speaker:pent up feelings and those thoughts. So you, the last thing
Speaker:that you want is to box them away, put them in a drawer and
Speaker:close it up, because it's just going to resurface as a bigger
Speaker:problem, it's just going to manifest itself in other ways
Speaker:into your life. So we want to, you know, allow people to
Speaker:release this emotion to release it, but we don't want them to.
Speaker:But we don't want we don't want to absorb it. We don't want to
Speaker:then take on that emotional, you know that emotional stress and
Speaker:then go and perpetuate the chain and continue to dump onto
Speaker:others. So I'm just going to give you a quick couple
Speaker:examples. So for example, you know, after school a lot of
Speaker:times when I pick up my daughter, she will emotionally
Speaker:dump on me. And I get it the school day can be a lot It is
Speaker:extremely overstimulating there all kinds of kids all kinds of
Speaker:interactions, all kinds of energetic stuff happening
Speaker:throughout the day at school, that when she gets home, she
Speaker:sometimes can be extremely rude and say things I know that she
Speaker:doesn't mean and just like be in a emotionally unstable Place,
Speaker:but I realize that this is just her process, you know, after
Speaker:1015 minutes at like one more home, when we're alone when
Speaker:we're away from everything, then she will return back to her
Speaker:normal, happy, energetic self, but she has to go through this
Speaker:emotional dumping process just because there was so much
Speaker:emotion so much that she took on throughout the day that she now
Speaker:needs to release it from her body, so that she can even go
Speaker:back to herself. Another example is, you know, with my family of
Speaker:like, sometimes when different things are going on with our
Speaker:family, whether that be someone sick, someone is, you know, in
Speaker:and out of the hospital, and
Speaker:tibbett you know, what
Speaker:the the sick person might dump on someone else, one of our
Speaker:other family members that family member might go and on another
Speaker:family member and it just like, it continues in that way.
Speaker:So how
Speaker:do you channel it? How do you channel these emotional dumpings
Speaker:when people are doing it to you. So the first thing is, you need
Speaker:to realize what's going on, you need to realize, Oh, this person
Speaker:is dumping right now. So basically, that's their
Speaker:complaint. It's either like a complaint. Um, I mean, you can,
Speaker:you will be able to tell when people are emotionally dumping
Speaker:on you, it's typically complaining about something or
Speaker:speaking about something in a way that obviously is, you know,
Speaker:has been weighed weighing on them, they're obviously holding
Speaker:on to a lot of pent up emotion about whatever the topic is, and
Speaker:they're trying to release it. And in releasing it, they're
Speaker:speaking to you about it, so that they can release it. So the
Speaker:first thing you need to do is you need to identify it. The
Speaker:second thing you need to do is you need to realize that you are
Speaker:playing an extremely important role in that person's life, you
Speaker:are there to help them get rid of this stuff pent up energy
Speaker:that they're feeling that you are there to help be a channel
Speaker:for them. To get rid of this stuck energy that they're
Speaker:holding on to, you are playing an important role. So you The
Speaker:second thing you need to do is you need to understand how
Speaker:important the role that you're playing is. And instead of, you
Speaker:know, maybe getting upset at the person or feeling like upset is
Speaker:not necessarily the right word. But just like feeling like maybe
Speaker:it's a burden to be the one that everyone always goes to with
Speaker:their problems. I know like growing up that was kind of
Speaker:always me is that people, a lot of people would dump their
Speaker:problems on me I was someone that people always felt like
Speaker:they could talk to you really well. And so they would do, they
Speaker:would dump their problems on me. And I think that's one of the
Speaker:reasons why I've learned, you know, kind of this the art of
Speaker:the emotional dump. Because I've had to kind of learn how to
Speaker:channel a lot myself, so that I'm not soaking up the dumping
Speaker:that's happening. Um, so you have identified that they're
Speaker:dumping on you. And you have now realized that your role is
Speaker:important. And now you can be thankful, be thankful that you
Speaker:have this awareness of what's going on, be thankful that you
Speaker:are in the state of mind, but you can be this channel for that
Speaker:person, be thankful for your position. And now this is where
Speaker:we're gonna like start going down a little bit more of the
Speaker:Whoo, energetic quantum path. So at this point, what you're going
Speaker:to want to do is you're going to want to just breathe in and out
Speaker:one or two times, and say a little mantra to yourself, in
Speaker:your head and just, you basically it's going to depend
Speaker:on your specific spiritual beliefs, whether that be source
Speaker:universe, God or any other diety. You're basically just
Speaker:going to say, you know, for me, I would say source or universe,
Speaker:I'd say thank you universe for allowing me to be this channel
Speaker:for persons name. Allow this information to flow through me
Speaker:and back to you source because you have all of the answers.
Speaker:Thank you for watching. calling us to release these emotions.
Speaker:And that's it just like do a couple deep breaths like that.
Speaker:Just like say a little mantra doesn't have to be you know,
Speaker:word for word, the same as that mantra. That's just what I do.
Speaker:But just, you know, say a couple little deep breaths, say a
Speaker:couple deep breaths, take a couple of deep breaths, say your
Speaker:little mantra, basically, just being thankful, being grateful.
Speaker:Understand, coming
Speaker:from a place of awareness, understanding that the role that
Speaker:you're playing is extremely important in this person's life,
Speaker:it is going to help them but you don't have to carry the weight
Speaker:of it. You don't have to carry the weight of it at all, the
Speaker:universe has your back, God has your back, you know,
Speaker:what any,
Speaker:you know, whatever day it you know, all that, well, anything
Speaker:that you believe in, like you are being protected, you're
Speaker:taking care of you don't have to carry the burden alone, you're
Speaker:just there to be a channel, whether you know, even like your
Speaker:ancestors, anything, spirit, anything. There is a force
Speaker:greater than us in this world. That's something that I am
Speaker:unwavering about how that manifests in your life is up to
Speaker:you. But there is a force that's greater than just us human
Speaker:beings on this planet. And use that force, use
Speaker:the Force,
Speaker:allow yourself to just be a channel back to the to the
Speaker:source and, and know that sources going to, to take care
Speaker:of you and reproductive protect you. So that's that it's really
Speaker:simple. That's how you channel it. And then after you're done
Speaker:with, you know, their conversation, you're done.
Speaker:Speaking with
Speaker:that person,
Speaker:again, just take another minute, like, it doesn't have to be a
Speaker:big deal. It doesn't have to be this big, whole hour long
Speaker:frickin ritual thing. Like everyone tries to overcomplicate
Speaker:everything, no, it can literally be like, two or three deep
Speaker:breaths in and out, and just again, thanking yourself for
Speaker:being able to be this channel for that person. And then just
Speaker:stating, again, like, I release this emotional state, I release
Speaker:this energy from my body, and just breathe it in and out. And
Speaker:literally visualize, like, that emotion, that stuff, that energy
Speaker:that they just like, poured into you. Now just imagine that
Speaker:flowing out of you flowing through you, you are not, you
Speaker:know, the pool to collect all of this stuff, you're just the
Speaker:channel, you are just a vessel for it to leave that other
Speaker:person's body.
Speaker:Okay,
Speaker:so now let's talk about how to not do it to others, how are you
Speaker:going to not emotionally dump your shit onto others. Um, now,
Speaker:I do just want to be very clear, like, sometimes you do need to
Speaker:speak it out and talk it out with another human being. Um,
Speaker:so always
Speaker:make sure that the person that you are dumping on is in the
Speaker:right mental space to be able to dump on them. Um, you know,
Speaker:like, don't, it's just, it's everything is really about
Speaker:awareness. Make sure you're not dumping on your kids, they don't
Speaker:understand it, obviously, like, make sure that you're going to
Speaker:someone who has some level of awareness, and you can just
Speaker:straight up tell them like, Are you in a un? Are you in a state
Speaker:of mind right now? Where I can dump on you? Like, ask that
Speaker:question. That's always a good, a good thing, because sometimes
Speaker:it might be a very normally pretty emotionally stable
Speaker:person, but they might be like, going through some shit at that
Speaker:moment. And maybe they're not, it's not a good time for you to
Speaker:dump on that. So before you're gonna dump on someone, unless
Speaker:it's someone like me, who is who's a coach and who, you know,
Speaker:is does more personalized, you know, therapy type sessions, you
Speaker:don't necessarily have to ask me if it's okay to dump on me
Speaker:because that's, you know, what I'm being paid for. But if it's
Speaker:just a friend, or you know, a family member or something like
Speaker:that, just ask them. Are you in an emotionally stable place
Speaker:right now where I can dump on you, or I can dump what I'm
Speaker:going through on you? And if they say, No, don't be offended,
Speaker:because it's nothing personal. It has nothing to do with you.
Speaker:It just has to do with them. And that's, that's, that's fine. So,
Speaker:ask and then just make sure that they understand that you're
Speaker:dumping. If, if that's, you know, what needs to happen, and
Speaker:I believe that sometimes, it doesn't need to happen with
Speaker:another human being because we are humans and we crave
Speaker:connection and that is just Like wired in us, we want to speak to
Speaker:other people about things. And sometimes we need to, like talk
Speaker:it out with a third opinion, right.
Speaker:But
Speaker:for the things that you need to
Speaker:dump, that you don't necessarily need to,
Speaker:you
Speaker:know, tell two other people you don't necessarily need to dump
Speaker:on others. What I suggest for you, is figure out how to dump
Speaker:it for yourself. So for me, like journaling, wow, that has been
Speaker:powerful. journaling is so powerful. The other thing that I
Speaker:do his voice memos, because sometimes my brain is going like
Speaker:way faster than my hand can write. And I just need to get
Speaker:the shout at me, I just need to release it, I just need to get
Speaker:out, get out. And I will just word vomit. And I'll just do a
Speaker:voice memo recording on my phone, whatever, just to like,
Speaker:dump everything that I'm feeling dumped this shit. Again, I don't
Speaker:know if I said it on my podcast, but I know I've said it on
Speaker:Instagram. Sometimes you're going to write down things that
Speaker:aren't positive. That's going to happen in this emotional dumping
Speaker:phase, you're gonna write down shit that's not positive. And I
Speaker:know a lot of manifestation teachers and coaches are like,
Speaker:you should always, you know, write down, you know, positive
Speaker:things like writing is so important to manifestation and
Speaker:like don't attach it to anything negative, I totally get that.
Speaker:But this is a different process, when you are dumping your
Speaker:emotions, you need to just stream of consciousness, write
Speaker:it down, however it's coming, whatever you're feeling, and you
Speaker:just need to release it. A fun practice that you can do is you
Speaker:could even, you know, you can if you're journaling, and you're
Speaker:writing it down, this is you know, a little bit extra. But it
Speaker:can be fun. And it can be like a cool ritual to have is when you
Speaker:are having these emotions that you need to dump, you can dump
Speaker:them, dump them out on paper, write them all out. And then you
Speaker:can actually like burn them and release them into the universe
Speaker:and just kind of do a very similar mantra, little
Speaker:meditation. As I was saying before, if you are becoming a
Speaker:channel for another person, just you know, release those
Speaker:feelings, those emotions back to source, think about that,
Speaker:visualize that as you like, burn the paper or whatever. Again,
Speaker:like totally extra, like not necessary. But the cool thing
Speaker:with this with this process, if you're doing voice memos, or
Speaker:whatever, you can now go back, you know, when you're not in
Speaker:such an emotionally charged state, like maybe the next day
Speaker:or the next couple of days, and you can really listen to it and
Speaker:then you can dissect it. And you can basically poke holes in your
Speaker:emotional state in like the negativity, you can look for
Speaker:anything that you can start poking holes in. That's not
Speaker:true. And that's just going to help with the process
Speaker:completely. So that's emotional dumping. That's how I feel about
Speaker:emotional dumping. That's what it is, look around you, like
Speaker:really look around you, you will start to notice people dumping
Speaker:all over each other all the time. This is something that
Speaker:happens constantly, because like I stated at the beginning, most
Speaker:people are not aware, most people don't really understand
Speaker:what ripple effect their actions have the the complaints will
Speaker:ever they don't. They just don't have the level of awareness that
Speaker:you have, or the you know, it's, it's something that takes time.
Speaker:And now that you are aware, you're gonna start seeing it
Speaker:everywhere. I I'm serious, like especially if you're a parent,
Speaker:you're gonna see it happening at on the playground and like with
Speaker:your kids, like everywhere. So if you enjoyed this episode, it
Speaker:would mean so much to me, if you could share it with one friend
Speaker:who you think would enjoy this episode as well. If there's
Speaker:someone else who you think could benefit from learning about
Speaker:emotional dumping, dumping, either. They're in a position
Speaker:where they are getting dumped on emotionally all the time. And
Speaker:they need to learn how to channel it because maybe they're
Speaker:taking it on and it's weighing them down. Like share this
Speaker:episode with them. Let them know this is how my podcast grows,
Speaker:just trying to get out spread, spread positivity, raise the
Speaker:vibration of this planet and truly make an impact on this
Speaker:world.
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