
Repairing your relationship with emotions
Over the course of our lifetime, we are taught how we should respond to and express our emotions, what emotions we are allowed to feel and when, and how much emotion we are supposed to feel in any given situation. Unfortunately, these lessons are often unhelpful, and lead us to feeling like we should be able to control our emotions – we come to fear them, and react to them by either stuffing or numbing, or acting out from our emotions. Both of these forms of response work for