Processing Emotions

Are you ready for this weeks challenge? Lets talk about emotions. Part of good self care is to be able to learn to try to regulate your emotions. I know its not always easy and a lot of things can impact them such as mental health issues, physical issues, situations and even things like sleeping and eating. But we can take steps to work on processing them. Lets try these steps this week. 1.Acknowledge your feelings. They are real so validate them! The person who tells you Oh just tell yourself not to be sad- dont you just want to hang them by their toes? Its okay to have feelings and when we try to stuff them or ignore them it can make them worse. So acknowledge them. Im really feeling……. 2. Use logic in the situation to help turn it around and make things more realistic. One thing feelings do is make a bad situation feel worse. What is causing the feeling? Can you reframe it? Can you find a solution? Can you just acknowledge that although it feels bad right now it wont feel that way forever? 3. Support yourself. Give yourself some love. I will get through this. Its going to be okay. Be your own cheerleader. Now again this wont always fix things but it will hopefully help you get through some tough moments. Please try it out this week and share with us how you are doing!

So the challenge this week: Work on processing your emotions 1. Acknowledge your feelings. 2. Use logic to turn it around or put realistic parameters on it. 3. Support yourself Are you up for the challenge