#DailyWritingChallenge: Emotions

Day 21: 14/04/2020

I feel with every ounce of my being. Whether it’s joy or sadness or anxiety or heartache, I feel it all.

The truth is, I haven’t always been someone who talks openly about my emotions. I was always worried that speaking about my feelings would make me vulnerable to others perceiving me as weak. Talking about one’s emotions wasn’t something we did in my house and is still sort of a taboo in many communities.

This is a fallacy of course. How can our emotions make us weak? Emotions makes us human. Our feelings and our ability to articulate those feelings is what makes us different to other creatures and is part of our intellectual being. I say this mostly as a reminder to myself because recently, being at home has made me feel incredibly nostalgic and sentimental and has heightened every emotion.

When I’m usually feeling like this, what I tend to do (and I can’t remember where I read about this) is list the things I feel and then counteract them with what I know to be true. In the past, this has really helped me deal with my emotions and feelings. However, in these circumstances it hasn’t been having the same impact. However, having read Hannah Wilson’s blog on the theme of Emotions (https://ethical-leader.blog/2020/04/14/dailywritingchallenge-day-21-emotions/) I have found a new way of dealing with those emotions.

And we do need to acknowledge and deal with those emotions in order to help ourselves and those around us. Like Hannah states, it is an act of self compassion.

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