(In Person & Free) How to Let Go of Negative Emotions

Letting Go Workshop

Please note: the space is a walk-up.

Most people don’t have a stress problem.
They have a holding on problem.

Old emotions build up inside us: fear, anger, guilt, shame, grief, humiliation, anxiety, resentment, and the weight of things we never fully faced.

Most of us try to handle emotions in three ways:

• Blocking Out: pretending we’re fine, distracting ourselves, reframing too quickly, staying “positive.”
• Acting Out: venting, yelling, crying, spiraling, fighting, dumping the emotion onto someone else.
• Dipping Out: escaping into work, food, alcohol, entertainment, busyness, isolation, or distraction.

These can sometimes help a little. But they usually only release a bit of pressure. The deeper emotion is still there.
In this workshop, I’ll teach my personal Letting Go method.

The core idea is simple:
You stop running from the emotion.
You stop turning it into a story.
You stop trying to fix it with thoughts.
You let the emotion come up fully, feel it directly, and witness it calmly until the charge begins to burn itself out.

Emotions often come in layers.

They often loop.

A small feeling may lead into something deeper. Anger may reveal shame. Shame may reveal fear. Fear may reveal grief. The goal is not to analyze every story. The goal is to release the emotional charge underneath it.

You’ll learn how to:
Release negative emotions instead of suppressing them
Recognize when you are Blocking Out, Acting Out, or Dipping Out
Feel emotion intensely while staying calm and aware
Let emotional layers and loops run without getting swallowed by them
Separate the story from the feeling underneath
Reduce emotional weight over time
Use the method in daily life, with both small and big emotions
This is not fake positivity.
This is not “just breathe.”
This is not pretending everything is fine.
This is not a one-time cure.

It is a practical method for draining negative emotional charge over time, so you can feel lighter, clearer, calmer, and less controlled by old emotions.
Hope to see you there.

Suggested donation: $15
Absolutely not required. No one will be turned away.

## About Dillon Freed

Dillon Freed is a writer, teacher, entrepreneur, and psychology educator with a background in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. He holds a BA in Psychology and is completing an MS in Cognitive Neuroscience, where his work focuses on consciousness, the self, emotion, and the deeper forces that shape human experience.
Dillon has created multiple psychology-based programs, including work focused on emotional release and letting go.