"What is something you were wrong about when it comes to emotions?"
Connected to feeling feelings but not listening to them: big feelings aren't bad, but how you express then can be. One of my parents is quite stoic with negative emotions and the other tends to yell when feeling angry or frustrated. There was this unspoken lesson that big…
"What is something you were wrong about when it comes to emotions?"
Connected to feeling feelings but not listening to them: big feelings aren't bad, but how you express then can be. One of my parents is quite stoic with negative emotions and the other tends to yell when feeling angry or frustrated. There was this unspoken lesson that big emotions are bad because they are uncontrollable and excessive. So I did experience big emotions, so I did my best to shove them down. I became embarrassed of them, both the bad and the good.
Through conversations with friends and reading, I've been on the road to unlearning this lesson. Thank goodness.
"What is something you were wrong about when it comes to emotions?"
Connected to feeling feelings but not listening to them: big feelings aren't bad, but how you express then can be. One of my parents is quite stoic with negative emotions and the other tends to yell when feeling angry or frustrated. There was this unspoken lesson that big emotions are bad because they are uncontrollable and excessive. So I did experience big emotions, so I did my best to shove them down. I became embarrassed of them, both the bad and the good.
Through conversations with friends and reading, I've been on the road to unlearning this lesson. Thank goodness.
I love this so much! I also had to learn how to channel big emotions into more healthy processing!