Your Feelings Are Valid

and some more

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your feelings are valid

(and,
when you’re ready
and have sat with it
we can explore them further

what are they telling you?
what automatic routes does it default to
for your thoughts, actions, feelings and behaviours?)

(i’m not enough)
(binge eating)
(secondary shame feelings,
I shouldn’t even be feeling “x”)

how can we focus
on tackling
what it’s telling you
without defaulting to
thoughts, actions, feelings
that we may not want as much?

how do we lay them to rest?

— a way to speak to myself that was an entirely new language, but that I’d wished was a core part of my basic childhood education. Why do we learn to manage numbers but not our emotions?

Inviting Assumpta Nalubowa | Keegan Roembke | Dennett | Jade-Ceres Violet D. Munoz | Nia Simone McLeod | Winston | Julladonna Park | Wobbly Jester| Greg Proffit | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that…

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Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
The Brain is a Noodle

Filling in the cracks on conflicting self improvement advice and translating how these can work for a more diverse audience ✨ Icon by: @jkbarts #WEOC writer.