Posted by ClearSkies on January 22, 2007, at 12:44:22
In reply to RePS, posted by Phillipa on January 22, 2007, at 11:06:48
> Clear Skies how do you not fight it? Love Phillipa
If I'm having a bad day, I don't try to talk myself out of it. I don't want to confuse this with negative self-talk. What's been working best for me has been to allow myself to feel as badly as I do (because that is what I'm feeling, after all), and treat myself as gently as possible.
When I allow myself to do this - instead of forcing myself to smile, not cry, not feel angry - I honour my feelings instead of stuffing them down. Stuffing my feelings was really what I was best at for so very long. Bury everything as far down as I could.
CS
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