A journey into the depths of your being.
When someone is overwhelmed with emotions, like, anxiety, fear, anger, guilt, self-doubt, etc, & is struggling to manage them, it leads to emotional suffering.
It does feel like anger is such a strong emotion and the hardest to control, doesn’t it? Asking the right, a.k.a., effective question is crucial to finding the answer you’re looking for. Why anger is a hard emotion to control isn’t the most effective question. For one, we have no control over any emotion, not … Read more
I’m sure you have tried it – ignoring your thoughts and feelings. How’s that worked out for you in the past? Maybe at the moment, it was helpful. But if it was working well for you, you wouldn’t be here trying to find an answer to this question, would you? Alright, let me say it … Read more
Can I please just say right away that I neither like nor buy into this concept of being “emotionally weak”? “Why are you then writing about it?!”, I hear you wonder a little confused. I write in the hope of adding a different perspective to the (more or less) misleading concepts of emotional weakness, “symptoms” … Read more
“Everyone’s pain is in the superlative.” I’m not sure who said this. I heard it from my mother who heard it from her friend, about two decades ago! And I can’t find it on Google. It basically means that pain is relative and that each person’s pain can seem to them to be the most … Read more
Can I just say right at the start of this article that it’s not so much a question of “can you”, but rather the more effective question here would be, “When can you trust your emotions?” It’s like asking if you can trust a thermometer. Yes, you can when it’s working correctly. No, you can’t … Read more
When do you usually use the word “difficult”? In what context? Do you use it to describe something you excel in or something you struggle with? The question’s rhetorical, and the answer is obvious! If “difficult feelings” had been introduced to us in kindergarten, we’d not be calling these emotions “difficult” for we would have … Read more
“Hurt people, hurt people. Healed people, heal people.” I’m not sure whose quote this is. When I searched online, I found that no one’s really sure of its exact origin, plus the quote that most people use is “hurt people, hurt people”. They miss out on the second part, which in my opinion, renders the … Read more
“And a woman spoke, saying, “Tell us of Pain.”And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (Knopf, 1923) The hurt of emotional pain can become unhealthy, and unbearable, if not worked within an effective way that enables us to understand it, process it, and … Read more
When I came across this question on multiple platforms, a part of me wished there was one single thing I could share with those struggling with this internal hurt that would resolve it for them. A silver bullet. Alas, just like werewolves, silver bullets are a myth! So then what do you do when you’re … Read more
If you’re hurting emotionally, or have been in emotional pain for some time – and if you have similar patterns to what I used to have – chances are the emotional pain you’re experiencing might feel all-encompassing. Frankly, at this moment, that probably is your truth – the hurt, the pain, is so intense that … Read more