Wrapping-up our 3-part series on indulgent emotions, brings us to the ever-tricky procrastination and boredom.
PANDEMIC POWER: Embracing Your Emotions
Our emotions are probably all over the place right now—and for good reason!
You may be stressed because a loved one has contracted the virus or works in a high-risk job, facing financial overwhelm due to loss of income, or just frustrated being stuck in your house with your entire family for weeks.
A lot of us are feeling intense emotions because of the pandemic, with few outlets for them. If you’re anxious, afraid, lonely, stressed-out, please know you’re not alone, and that all of your feelings are both VALID and NORMAL. It’s an overwhelming time, and your psyche is just trying to keep up and process everything!
How to Transform Anger Into True Empowerment
Have you ever wondered why we hate our anger so much? Or why it is that we can be so afraid of being angry?
Anger is one of our basic emotions but anger can be a tricky emotion for many reasons.
First of all, most of us were socialized that being angry was very un-ladylike. It was not readily accepted or encouraged and even frowned upon in the societies or the families that we grew up in.
How many people do you know that have a healthy expression of anger?
Probably not too many right? Why is that?
How to Feel Better Right Now With 7 Simple Steps to Processing Emotions
This one thought has set me and so many of my clients free: "The worst thing that can happen is a negative emotion." And you can be liberated too, woman. Hear me roar!
Think about it for a second, it’s not the circumstance itself that is hard. It’s the thoughts you have about the circumstances that cause you pain. Emotions are just chemicals in your body that vibrate. When you feel stress your body releases a chemical called cortisol. This chemical vibrates. You can learn how to process stress and any other emotion with these simple steps below.
Suffering is optional
Our thoughts about anything that happen in life are 💯% optional. I’m gonna teach you how to become a pro at managing your emotions. It’s probably the single most empowering thing you can learn to do in life.
Emotional Courage
Your Badass Life is awaiting you.
What to do when hard things happen, or you want to make some scary changes:
Practice emotional courage.
The worst thing that can happen in life is a feeling.
Take a moment and REALLY think about that. Oh and that 10 years relationship you had, the worse thing about it was a feeling. Isn't that crazy. We think it's all the circumstances, but it's actually the feelings.
When you practice emotional courage, you can and do get through anything in your life because you are willing to feel any emotion.
Why Patience Isn’t a Virtue and Chick-Flicks Keep You in the Present Joyful Moment
Many clients will tell me, “if only I could have more patience in my relationship with my partner, or with my kids, or even myself, everything would be so much better.”
The definition of patience is “the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like and the ability to tolerate delay.”
Patience, as it's defined above, sounds like a tall order to me.
It sounds vitreous but also pretty painstaking and maybe even a little gruesome when it comes to relationships.
What if there was a better way to relate than to practice patience?
Emotions as a Skill to Create Your Irresistible Life
One day she learned how to feel love no matter what…and you can too.
Do you know that right now you can feel exactly as you wish?
When you learn to feel emotions as a skill, you can use them as tools to literally create anything you want in life!
What do you want to create? It can be absolutely anything.
I decided I wanted to feel more LOVE in my life.
Lots of love for my life and the people in it. I decided to selfishly practice unconditional love. I know that may sound cheesy, but I don’t care because it works and it feels good. It’s not some airy-fairy kind of thing I’m talking about, it’s real emotion.
Who Makes You Feel Angry or Upset Regularly?
Think about what happens when someone makes you so angry. Such as, he was late when he said he’d be on time or she had a girls night and didn’t invite you or he didn’t pick up the groceries you asked him to pick up twice, etc.
You avoid them, snap at them, give them a piece of your mind, tell them it’s their fault, you take some action driven by your frustration. Your behavior is reasonable, right? I’m sorry, no, wrong.
Expecting another person to deal with your feelings is not you dealing with your own feelings.
Who Has the Power To Make You Happy?
Without realizing it, so many of us are putting expectations on someone else to make us happy. Most women I know struggle with this at some point or another in their lives. Whether it’s with their partner, best friend, child, the clerk at the grocery store, the guy who didn’t hold the door open for you, or the boss that didn’t give you the recognition you deserve, there is a tendency to put our ability to feel good in the hands of someone else.
You Get to Create Your Own Life in Emotional Adulthood
You are in the driver's seat when you practice emotional adulthood.
The idea of Emotional Adulthood is a core tenant in my coaching practice. Because from the place of emotional adulthood we take back so much of our own power in our lives. We become more focused on what matters, rather than being distracted with things we can’t change, and we begin to create in our lives in ways that can just blow your mind.
Don't stress the stuff you can't change. It's a waste of your energy and emotional wherewithal.
