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A Positive Step-by-Step Guide to Handling Any BIG Emotion
Feelings don’t cause distress, not feeling does
“Depression and anxiety can’t fit in your head if you’re cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.” ~ Austin Butler
Life is a journey that is actually full of emotions and feelings. Everything that happens in our life we have attached an emotion to it. In fact, if you think of any event from the past(even yesterday) the emotion attached to that event is what you feel first when you think about it.
Its amazing how everything we are, is a sum total of the feelings and emotions we have been through. But, sometimes the emotions feel too BIG to handle in certain situations. And that is very normal. We all can feel overwhelmed when we feel these big emotions coming on. They are often triggered by life-changing decisions or events.
Many unhealed souls like to brush their emotions under the rug and get on with their life, because it is easier not to deal with those big emotions. I know, I was one of those souls for so long!! But in the long run these big emotions become emotional scars, which become harder to heal from. They can manifest in the form of anxiety, depression, panic, anger, control issues, substance abuse etc. The most healing and positive way forward is to feel the emotion and then…
