Thank you for this Divinely timed offering--you're helping me arrive at a new clarity about some really deep emotions that come up for me around boundaries. What I tapped into was shame, fear, embarrassment--the truer story being this: When I try to help myself, or defend myself when I feel I've been wronged, I feel fearful and ashamed. I'm just showing myself for the first time in my life that it's OKAY to take action and ask for help. Sometimes that's messy. Sometimes I get triggered. ..and that's still OKAY, and it's still progress.
Jun 4, 2022Liked by Becoming Dragon ◬ Cris Beasley
This is really good Cris! I love your timer strategy. The ability to lean in to those sensations and feelings is something that needs to be developed and practiced and this is a great way to do with out automatically launching into negative self-judgment mode at the same time. Love it.
"Anxiety and depression result when too many difficult feelings have gone unfelt for too long." This was just one of the excellent nuggets I found in this post, and I'm grateful to have (accidentally) stumbled across this Substack LOL. I keep brushing against this concept of "limiting beliefs," so obviously I need to listen to it and begin noticing it in my own life. "You get to find out who you are underneath the limiting belief" <- What a beautiful sentence!
Thank you for this Divinely timed offering--you're helping me arrive at a new clarity about some really deep emotions that come up for me around boundaries. What I tapped into was shame, fear, embarrassment--the truer story being this: When I try to help myself, or defend myself when I feel I've been wronged, I feel fearful and ashamed. I'm just showing myself for the first time in my life that it's OKAY to take action and ask for help. Sometimes that's messy. Sometimes I get triggered. ..and that's still OKAY, and it's still progress.
Jerianne liked the separation of stories and feelings
This is really good Cris! I love your timer strategy. The ability to lean in to those sensations and feelings is something that needs to be developed and practiced and this is a great way to do with out automatically launching into negative self-judgment mode at the same time. Love it.
"Anxiety and depression result when too many difficult feelings have gone unfelt for too long." This was just one of the excellent nuggets I found in this post, and I'm grateful to have (accidentally) stumbled across this Substack LOL. I keep brushing against this concept of "limiting beliefs," so obviously I need to listen to it and begin noticing it in my own life. "You get to find out who you are underneath the limiting belief" <- What a beautiful sentence!