Your anger? It’s telling you where you feel powerless.
Your anxiety? It’s telling you that something in your life is off balance.
Your fear? It’s telling you what you care about.
Your apathy? It’s telling you where you’re overextended and burnt out.
Your feelings aren’t random, they are messengers. And if you want to get anywhere, you need to be able to let them speak to you, and tell you what you really need.
— Brianna Wiest (Partner at Thought Catalog and Author of the international bestsellers 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You and When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal).
My favourite therapist begins every session with “How are you feeling today? Give me your top three feeling words.” It can be hard to pin down emotions, so he provides a guide sheet, with every conceivable feeling one could possibly have. This is very helpful actually, because there can be subtle nuance to our emotions. Discussing the emotional context typically leads to an action plan; draw a new boundary, make a request of a loved one, decide to stop doing something, decide to start doing something, etc. Just sayin’ :) Hugs. XO
Blessings,
Chatgirl
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