Suffering in silence? I've spent too much of my life feeling guilty for feeling angry. And I've spent too much time feeling needless anger. Too afraid to confront perceived injustices, I morphed into self-pity mode instead---which effectively increased my anger...and suffering. For "good measure" and to "atone," I added guilt to my toxicity. Thankfully, divine intervention led me to the field of Communication Studies. I learned how to analyze the emotion of anger as well as its root causes. ... VIEW POST
Got Emotional Indigestion?
Think About What You’re Thinking About
Are you always on your mind? As a young woman, I felt responsible for everyone's feelings. (Ironically, I felt little responsibility for my own.) I lived in a constant state of reactive thinking and feeling. Consequently, my actions were often reactive as well. I wasn't consciously aware of this cause/effect thought pattern. Nevertheless, a slow but steady pressure of anger and resentment welled within me. I was frustrated at my own sense of helplessness and my perceived ... VIEW POST
Wanna Go Sailing? Face, Brace, and Then Embrace.
Making our suffering purposeful. "In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning." These words from Viktor Frankl changed my life! A Jewish psychiatrist from Vienna, Dr. Frankl endured the Nazi horrors at Auschwitz. When freed, he wrote the book, Man's Search for Meaning in an effort to find meaning in the Holocaust. His conclusion: There was no meaning. There was no purpose. Yet, in efforts to retain his sanity, Frankl (and many of his ... VIEW POST
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