You’re treading water
With some effort and new coping strategies, you can start swimming confidently.
From your honest answers to the emotions quiz, it appears you have glimmers that there’s a better way!
You may be recognizing that the way you deal with your emotions is destructive to your wellbeing. You might be seeing that when a flood of emotions is dammed up, pressure builds until it finds some way to be released.
And when you can’t hold it in anymore, you may experience personal behaviors that lead to hidden agendas, manipulation, unresolved issues, elaborate coping mechanisms, addictions and obsessions, or medication.
Much of the time you likely don’t know what you’re feeling or why. You don’t know that it is OK to intensely feel or know what to do with those feelings. It may be much easier for you to escape them with exciting distractions, then get bored, do something to “numb” yourself and slowly pull away from everything.
What you may be discovering is that stuffing your difficult feelings makes you equally numb to the good stuff and the bad stuff. The desire to quell emotional pain leads to collateral damage, such as the inability to feel loved or to experience deep satisfying joy.
You may have a compelling desire to “find yourself” but this is elusive as you have trouble matching your inner experiences to the concepts and expectations your “outer” life presents.
If you wish, I can help you with your exploration.
- I offer self-guided online courses so that you can own your healing. Click here to learn more.
- Join me for my upcoming Portugal retreats.
Remember, this quiz is for personal insight and should not replace professional advice.