🌜Moon Child🌛

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that pretending something didn’t affect you actually doesn’t lessen the effects it has on you. It can be tempting to ignore or repress our emotional reactions, especially if we believe that these feelings are inappropriate.

But suppressing our emotions won’t make them miraculously go away. Even if you attempt to convince yourself it doesn’t hurt, if it hurts, it hurts. Unresolved emotions often surface in various forms, such as resentment, rage, passive aggressive behavior, frustration, tension, despair, and anxiety.

Understanding and controlling your emotional landscape frequently depend on your capacity to realize when something has injured you, experience that emotion, and possess the tools to get past it. It won’t go away by pretending that something didn’t harm you.

Being curious, open, and eager to process your feelings can help you cope with the suffering and lessen its effects. As long as it’s brief, suppressing your emotions isn’t always a terrible thing.

Sometimes there isn’t time to focus on “feeling your feelings” since you may be in an emergency, at work, or in another circumstance that prevents you from doing so right now.

So rather than attempting to shove your emotions away indefinitely, it’s crucial to check in with yourself later on and make time for them to be felt and processed.

How do you feel? Have you had a similar experience? How do you typically handle challenging emotions?