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Five-Step Emotional Healing Process
By David Beales and Helen Whitten

Part of the Emotional Healing For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Become familiar with the situations that disturb you, take action to enable yourself to balance your
emotional response to them and make this emotional healing process an integral part of your life.
1. Notice the situation that upsets you.
2. Observe your:
Physical signals from body-mind
Emotions
Thoughts
Behaviours
3. Stop, step back, take a breathing space to calm yourself and reflect on what’s happening. Ask
what you need to do now.
4. Act to resolve the situation by applying physical strategies, emotional self-care, and thinking
methods, and integrating these into new behaviours.
5. Embrace change with emotional needs as your guide.