Our world is filled with distractions that take us away from our feelings.
When we don't address how we feel we leave things unresolved, leading to a cycle of avoidance and temporary relief.
But this isn't lasting...
Distractions keep us from knowing ourselves & by knowing ourselves we shift the focus to what truly matters.
I used to live completely swirling in the chaos of life because I was afraid to interact with my feelings.
I did everything possible to keep from feeling what hurt and this really affected my physical health.
The more I avoided the greater my chances of being sick & having an achy body. Depression really set in. My inner world was overwhelmed.
The repression almost killed me as I was so disconnected to myself. I pushed down my emotions & and refused them entrance calling it self control.
The thing about emotions, is they provide critical information about our needs, values, and desires.
It's a loving & kind action to give yourself time and space to release how you feel. We aren't created to drag around with us pent up feelings.
As we acknowledge, express and process our emotions in a healthy way, we will experience positive mental health and the choice to be distracted moves to the realm of impossibility.
The choice to heal will always involve feeling. When someone says you don't need to feel to get better, they are selling you a line. A quick fix method you could say that isn't true healing.
I've had people come to me who were given the advice of not feeling pain which is a critical component to the healing process. In fact, validating pain & feeling into the pain is a form of self love and integration.
We are afraid of being powerless when we feel hard things, but a reframe is in order. You actually EMPOWER your entire self when you give permission to feel ALL THE THINGS!
Email me to learn practical ways of releasing emotions in a healthy and sustainable manner. I provide 1:1 release coaching in which all of you is acknowledged, loved and deemed worthy.
Letting go to feel is a powerful process in being human and healing.
Lots of Love,
Ellen Theresa
