What does it mean to process our thoughts, feelings, and experiences? How can we develop the practice of processing? Author and speaker Elizabeth Vahey Smith guides us through a conversation on this topic.

• Elizabeth Vahey Smith
• The Practice of Processing
• TCK Training
• “Sometimes people get this idea that they can learn this skill to help someone else and aren’t really thinking about their own needs. I think that it’s really important to have this practice of processing for oneself before trying to help other people through it.”
• “Processing can be applied to any emotion.”
• “The practice of processing is systematically understanding, sorting, and proceeding with emotions in a healthy way.”
• “When we start by processing the emotion that we’re feeling today, usually there is something in the past that led to that.”
• “There are so many different ways that you can personalize processing for every individual journey, but it starts with having a time and space to do it.”
• “TCKs in particular face so much grief during their childhoods.”

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