08/08/2025
✨Dealing with difficult emotions✨
These energies have been wild this week. I’ve been feeling a lot of emotions these past few days and someone recently asked me how I deal with difficult emotions when they come up so I thought I’d share with you all here and maybe it will help you too.
In the past when I would feel any kind of uncomfortable emotion I would usually turn to some distraction. I would find some way to be busy, maybe go out and socialise, maybe take some substances to disconnect. Often I would use s*x as a way to try to make myself feel better. And whilst these things worked temporarily, they are just a bandaid covering up the pain temporarily.
These days when difficult emotions arise, I sit with them. I usually isolate myself from others and I go inward. I sit with what’s coming up. I try to feel exactly what’s happening and why. This past week it’s old things, fears, imposter syndrome, feeling like I’m not good enough, comparing myself with others.
I allow myself to just feel it all and I try to give myself compassion and love. I nurture myself as I know and understand that it will pass. I allow myself to cry, to feel sad, even to feel a little sorry for myself for a while. I disconnect from others as I usually like to go through things alone. I stay at home and lay on the couch and watch romcoms. I drink cups of tea, have baths, listen to music and dance, maybe go for walks or just sit in the sunshine. I meditate or exercise if I feel called. I really try to be in my body and really deeply listen to what my body is asking for. I don’t try to distract or numb myself. I try to feel it all. Give it all space to be there.
For me I usually move through these periods with a day or two. My body has become very good at processing things quickly and for the most part I’m very emotionally stable with few ups and downs, but it still happens of course. This is being human. I really believe that the more that you just surrender and allow it all to be there without judgment, without trying to change it or push it away, the quicker you can process it and move on.
Stay connected to your body. Stay grounded. Allow it all. This too shall pass 🤍✨🪽