03/10/2025
Or do you tell yourself you shouldn't feel that way? Or you should be over it by now? Or that it shouldn't matter in the first place?
These are all ways we suppress our feelings and try to silence them. But what if, instead, we acknowledged them and allowed them. What if we changed the internal (and external) narrative to "it's okay to feel what you're feeling... whatever that might be"? What if we met those feelings with compassion, curiosity and understanding, rather than shame and judgement?
It might bring up fear about being wrong... or being different... or being rejected (and that fear is okay too!)... but what if you did allow your feelings to be here? Imagine not being up in your head with the shoulds and shouldn'ts. Imagine how freeing it would be to feel safe to feel what you're feeling? Imagine how freeing it would be to feel safe to be you?
Our feelings are here to tell us something. They need to be listened to and felt, so that we can build self understanding and self trust, and become more fully in tune with ourselves. It's how we heal, move forward and live more peacefully.
You're not wrong for feeling the way you do. If you're oftentimes telling yourself "but I shouldn't feel that way", I'd love to work with you and support you to freely feel and build a sense of trust and safety within yourself 🩷
