Processing Emotions
Most of us know how to be happy. We know what it feels like and we enjoy it.
Most of us know how to be angry. We know what it feels like and we sometimes know why we’re angry.
But we don’t know how to be sad. We don’t know how to deal with loss on any level.
We don’t know how to repair the relationship after the feelings hit and sometimes we can’t or we shouldn’t.
The emotions that we label ‘bad’ or difficult to deal with often come from circumstances where we are faced with something new or too overwhelming for us to handle.
What is overwhelm?Overwhelm is when you as one person are in a situation that has too much for you to bear and you don’t know how to process what’s happening around you.The circumstances of this overwhelm can be big or small. They can be under your control, or out of your control. They can environmental, (noise or movement) or they can be emotional, (the boss is angry, my child is sad).
When we reach a point of overwhelm we are not bad or incapable - it’s the overwhelm that put us in that situation. Sometimes we had a hand in creating the overwhelm - sometimes we didn’t.
This overwhelm is what tips us into being forced to deal with the emotions. And we don’t always do that well.Share Chronic Writer by VintageInkSlinger
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