Friday, August 17, 2018

Breaking the Cycle of Ouch: Why It’s OK to Not Feel OK

Fixing. Solving. Smoothing over. We often reach for the metaphorical superglue when we feel bad or out of sorts. We seek to plaster the cracks of ourselves so the negative emotions don’t leak out, keeping a self-imposed equilibrium of what life “should” be like. But it is OK to be frightened, sad, stressed, anxious or feel grief because it’s OK for it not to be OK.

The amount of effort it takes to hold the self imposed equilibrium tells us something — something important if we...


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