What's Emotional Mastery to you?

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? 

Comment below.

#emotionalhealth

#emotionalawareness

#mindset