I did not have the best start to life when it came to processing my feelings. I had the double whammy of parents from Eastern Europe (where it seems, in certain parts, any sort of emotion is absolutely forbidden) and parents who were struggling to “make it”. My parents worked hard to provide for me and my brother and to give us a good life. But they were just too plain busy to attend to our emotional needs. They were refugees and in survival mode. The only emotional tool I learned from them was repression.
Add to that I was (and am) highly sensitive and empathic. And I believe I came into this life with a high burden of a pain body. Hey, I’ve had lots of lifetimes on planet earth!
By the time I was in my twenties I was brimming over with emotional trash. I had to very quickly, and on my own, learn how to feel my feelings.
This may sound pretty simple to some people, but if you are an empath, lightworker, or highly sensitive person, you know that the emotional stuff we feel on a day to day basis can be pretty overwhelming.
Over the years I have put together a pretty awesome toolbox for processing emotions. I’m not talking about the day to day, light stuff. I’m talking about the gritty collection of negative emotions that could keep you up at night, make you lose your cool for no reason, or that pattern that’s been sending you down an unwanted path for many years.
Different tools have worked for me at different stages of my spiritual development. I’ve written about them in the following blog posts and tagged them as Emotional Processing Hacks. Wherever you are on your path, I hope you find something here that resonates with you.
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