Working through your emotions

Emotions aren’t always easy to deal with, especially one’s own and specifically the harder ones. We tend to either be in conflict with our own emotions or try to push them away, and at times even judge them both consciously and unconsciously. What if we instead turn towards them with curiosity and seek to understand why we feel the way we are feeling? At all times, our emotions are valid. It is trying to communicate a need to us - met and unmet. What if we took some of the conflicting energies regarding our own emotions and instead became curious about them? As they say “Pain isn’t suffering, resistance to pain is suffering”. What if we leaned into it, with curiosity and understanding and hold space for it. Let the emotions flow through you, that way when you hold space for it, you are then able to process them and work through those emotions. You may or may not totally be void of them, but now you do not need to be afraid of them or be hard on yourself for having them. When you begin to see yourself as that space that can make room for what arises within you, eventually you learn how to work through them and not against them. #therapy #onestepatatime #selfcompassion #curiosity #allemotionsarevalid