9 Inventive Ways to Identify and Process Your Emotions
I regularly share strategies to process our emotions on this blog because I want to highlight an important point: We can feel our emotions, even when we’ve spent years pretending they don’t exist or when we’ve let them dictate our decisions (and we fear their intensity).
In other words, it doesn’t matter if you never learned to effectively manage emotions, you’re uncomfortable doing so, or you feel like you’ve screwed it up in the past (the past being a week ago). Because you can start learning right now. You can start easing in right now.
Similarly, it’s important to realize that there are all kinds of healthy, nourishing ways to process emotions. The key is to find strategies that resonate with you and create a collection of coping skills you can turn to.