Why on earth would we want to engage with emotional pain when it can hurt so much? and how come it is so difficult to locate where emotional pain is in the body? Psychologist and Emotion Focused Therapist, Ashley White, explains why it might be useful to ask yourself, ‘Where is the pain’ in order to process difficult emotions.

Dr Joanne Dolhanty is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist based in Toronto, Canada and co-developer of the Emotion Focused Therapy approach to working with eating disorders.