At this point in my life, here's what it looks like:
🚫 Avoidance
🚫 Impulsive reactions
🚫 Believing the story of the emotions
🚫 Intellectualizing/Digging into the story
🚫 Judging the intensity
🚫 Permission granted to interrupt my day
🆗️ Opening fully to the emotion
🆗️ Feeling it in my body
🆗️ Naming it/Bringing it to awareness
🆗️ Breathing throughout
🆗️ Patience in it's longevity
🆗️ Experiencing it with curiosity
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I know that that's a neat list.
It wasn't always so clear to me.
I haven't been emotionally sober for that long. 😌#emotionalsobriety
Thank Gd I can look at what I'm feeling and experiencing multiple times a day without it dragging me down.
I'm coming from years of dissociation! And on top of that, I can see now how I allowed myself to feel only very specific emotions during that time. Some of which felt safe was anger, and lust. I don't remember feeling much else!
Oh, and a lot of heavy sadness and exhaustion. 😒
Yeah.
Learning to feel again, and to feel safe enough to feel ALL my emotions has been a wonderful and difficult journey. ❤️
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What would you add to the list?
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