Extract from a random conversation with Liana Brooks on learning to live with negative emotions – sharing because…?? I don’t know? Someone else might find it useful? My brain is a weird place and I feel you deserve full disclosure of that? Something. 😀
this is different
it’s not bottling
i know bottling
i come from a long hereditary line of bottling
this is just… acknowledging that the feelings are there but that that doesn’t mean they have to be in charge, right
yes, okay, i’m feeling blue
it’s kind of a light summery aqua, not a navy, so it’s easier
but it’s like
okay
there is blue
this does not actually change anything
yay blue
hi blue
blue is fine
blue is not in charge
red is not in charge
purple is not in charge
blue is not in charge not because it’s blue, but because it’s a feeling, and feelings don’t get to be in charge
they get to help
lots
they get to advise
but they only get to be in charge when I decide they are in charge
and right now, nope, not in charge
so
yes, i see you blue
you are there, and you are blue
and you can go and sit in your little blue corner and be blue, and that is fine
but while you do that, i’m just going to be over here being competent
and you can join me when you’re done, m’kay?
/nod.
/endrandom.