How to Coach Yourself and Others Grief Coaching and Counseling | Page 8

Once ignition is achieved, the emotions themselves dictate the expression. If you can let this
happen, you'll probably experience tears, sobbing, shivering, shaking, yawning, laughing.
Sometimes accompanied by words, screaming, yelling, growling, physical movement.
Usually movement during this phase does a sort of ebb and flow. You will probably find yourself
moving through many emotions, not just crying one thing. That's the nature of emotions. They're
not linear, and they're all connected to each other, although sometimes compartmentalization has
happened as a result of extreme suppression or fragmentation. Whatever the flow is, let it happen,
if you can.
You'll probably also experience a sort of emotional "stutter". A tendency to start/stop. Resistance
and mental activity may try to stop the process, to distract you in an attempt to move past the
pain, or just get you to move on quickly to step three.
Mind will tell you,