Be kind to your beautiful self. --Mary Davis
Psychologist Hillary McBride offers these leads to consider one's relationship with emotions:
Growing up, the feelings I was allowed to feel were …
I learned that it would be dangerous to feel …
The feelings that I have learned to label as negative are …
I am afraid that if I feel ______ (fear, sadness, joy, disgust, excitement, anger, desire), then I might …
When I was little, I needed to learn that feelings …
I'm guessing that the vast majority of folks in my generation were raised to suppress emotions, hence the enormous amount of addiction in our society today.
I had a morning of meltdown the other day. Looking back in my journal, I was feeling the same frustrations that I listed in a writing exactly one month prior. Lots of hard work with seemingly no progress piles up on me, and plenty of tears had to flow to release the angst. Because of that good soul-rinsing, I'm once again back on the upside.
Moving on,
Leta
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