Unruly Emotions

How is it going with all of those unruly emotions that you’re trying to control/suppress?

Perhaps you have been pushing past the sadness, the anger, the irritation. After all, there are children to be fed and deadlines to meet and other people have it so much worse than you.

Let me invite you to stop comparing and compartmentalizing your churning emotional world. The worst grief is always YOUR grief.

What you resist, persists. Suppressed emotions come out in your health and your treatment of others. We fear embracing the darkness of our emotions

1) Because we are a grief-adverse culture of quick fixes
2) Because we fear that the sadness/anger/irritation will never end

Today, people all around the world pause for a day of sacred mourning. Good Friday is a holy moment to sit in the dark and be sad. Consider it an invitation in your calendar to embrace your loss.

This is not the end…but it is an essential part of each of our stories that we can’t skim over by quickly flipping the page…