Little Gems
Growth and healing rarely occur in one grand transformation. Change happens bit by bit. In therapy, each insight and emotional shift moves us along the path toward greater freedom.
While a blog is not therapy, here I offer little gems of practical information and hard-won wisdom that I hope might spark something for you — an insight or emotional shift to move you along your own path.
The Emotions Series: Your Anger Loves You
From childhood, we’re taught that our anger is not welcome, But rather than fear anger as a way of losing our connection to others, let’s honor it as a way to reconnect with ourselves.
The Emotions Series: The Feelings Wheel
The feelings wheel can help guide us from our general feeling down into the specific experience we are having. And knowing what’s really going on inside can help us see what we might need in that moment.
The Emotions Series: Guilt vs. Remorse
Guilt will have us denying our needs and our inner knowing, but remorse will never lead us astray.
The Emotions Series: How to Sit with a Feeling
If we are not informed and intentional about how we sit with our feelings, we can end up just stewing in them and staying stuck, or ruminating and reinforcing a harmful belief.
Introducing The Emotions Series
Most of us, even those of us with the most loving and well-meaning caregivers and teachers, did not receive an emotional education. We learned to use a fork, to tie our shoes, to read and tell time. To share and to wait our turn. But not about the anger of having to share, or the frustration of waiting, or the embarrassment of being the last to read.