shira

Today I was thinking about sadness, anxiety, anger and hurt… All very strong emotions. It think that it is ingrained in our culture to do anything and everything we can to shirk off what are perceived as negative and detrimental feelings. Yes, long term gripping or looming negative mindsets can cause physical and emotional damage however, I think that it is important to acknowledge the feelings you may have.

For me, when I get into that grey head space and I have time, I allow myself to roll around in those feelings, to get dirty with my negative thoughts… I try to touch and feel, let myself go in the emotions. It is almost like when you crave a type of food… Maybe it is chocolate… If you restrain yourself and “be good” by avoiding the chocolate then in a moment of less self control you find your self gorging on a double fist of kit kat, Rolo, Twix and Milky Way all at once.

My thought is that if you give yourself a limit, like 3 hours of mental cloudy skies and a good cry or one bag of twizzlers then cap it off, you allow yourself to honor what you are feeling within reason and then move forward.

Maybe my analogy using junk food isn’t a good one but, I am hugely preggers right now and sweet sugary goodness is about all I can think about :0)