Feeling Our Feelings

"The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings." Gita Bellin

Mental health professionals would agree.  The fastest way to freedom is to feel our feelings.  Too many times we swim around in our anger or angst about the circumstances of something, but we do not dive deep into the feelings that the situation evoked in us.  We need to do that.  Instead of retelling the details of an injustice, express your feelings.  The fastest way through a feeling is to feel it, express it, do not deny or ignore it.  In caregiving, sometimes the grief and stress are so much that we need to acknowledge the sadness and stress of it.  We need to honor our feelings and express them in safe ways to safe people.  It is important to choose people who can accept the way we feel, and it is important to express our feelings before they brew up a big storm in us.  Who in your life will listen with love and acceptance to how you feel?