Are you experiencing painful emotions such as sadness, fear, anger?   

Are you experiencing painful emotions such as sadness, fear, anger?  

Painful emotions are clues we may need to make a change.

If you ignore your emotion, it won’t get better, it will likely persist.

If you can’t change the situation that is happening, you can change your interpretation of the experience.

For example, when my oldest son had been first hospitalized and diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and was in the hospital for almost a month, I was fearful.  My story was that I was thinking the very worst and fearing the unknown.  Changing my story to that it was very good he came to me with his symptoms, that he is in the best place for him to get help, and that he had a great doctor and therapist to work with him, helped me to refocus my energy on how I was, and could continue, helping him.  

You can control your feelings by controlling what your circumstances mean to you.

If you change your perception, you can improve your experiences.

Notice when negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, sadness, come up… and then journal on – 

What is your story around it? 

and

What else could this mean?

If you would like to, share in the comments. 

Sending love and light, 

Debbie