Episode 13: Emotional Granularity

Emotional Granularity: The Many Shades of Our Emotions

In this episode of All the Feels, Lauren explores emotional granularity, the ability to notice, distinguish, and name your emotional experiences with greater clarity, nuance, and compassion.

Most people don’t struggle because they feel too much. They struggle because they were never taught how to understand what they’re feeling. Emotional granularity offers a gentle, practical way to build that understanding, not by fixing emotions, but by expanding the language you have available to describe what’s already happening in your body.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• The difference between emotions (body sensations) and feelings (the meaning we assign to them)
  

• How emotional concepts shape the way we experience and interpret feelings
  

• Why more emotional language creates more choice, clarity, and self-trust
  

• How emotional granularity exists on a spectrum — and why wherever you are makes sense
  

• Why this work is invitational, not something you need to “get right”
  

Through accessible examples and thoughtful metaphors, Lauren invites you to see your emotional world not as something to control, but as a rich landscape to explore, one shade at a time.

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Resources Mentioned

• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• Feelings & Needs Reference Guide (Nonviolent Communication)

• Emotions Wheel

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• Website: laurencarlislebrown.com

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