Your Feelings and Emotions
March 12, 2010
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I have been thinking about our reluctance to share negative feelings or sometimes, even acknowledge they exist. Also, so many of us feel we need to keep these feelings in, because otherwise, we are being self absorbed or self-centered.
Well, how about thinking of it as not being self centered, but being “self caring”. Don’t feel that you are feeling sorry for yourself. A friend I have recently met, with a chronic illness herself, expresses this as “entitlement to grief”. I love that, because they are our feelings, and even ones that are born of sadness and grief, we are entitled to them. It is important to feel these emotions. Feelings of anger, hurt, fear, frustration, and even just simply sadness, get buried deep within us, because we feel they are inappropriate to talk about or share with others. This issue comes up from time to time at our support group here, as well as at an online MS support group I facilitate.
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