Have you ever wondered what it really means to "Sit with it" ?

*Reposting what I saw on Linkedin. :)

Healing asks us to learn to ‘sit with it’.

➡️This is about brining a compassionate gaze over our experiences.

This includes.

📌Releasing judgment.
📌Welcoming emotions.
📌Not trying to minimize of reduce our experience.
📌Not soothing through unhealthy coping or avoidance strategies.
📌Connecting sensations, emotions and thoughts about the experience.
📌Understanding origin wounds or narratives that may be amplifying our experience.
📌Validating our own feelings
📌Setting boundaries with shame-based internal chatter
📌Becoming aware that the way we see others and the world in these moments is altered
📌Not making rash decisions or acting from this altered place.

👉Our ability to sit with it comes with practice.
It’s about building capacity.
Developing a kind loving internal witness and space holder.
Containing our distress, rather than moving from it.

👉Our ability to sit with it helps us end collective trauma cycles. Instead of leaking it or throwing our unprocessed pain into the world or turning it back on ourselves, we finally begin to metabolize it. To heal.

❓What do you think?