Feel Your Feelings - Blog Posts

My inspiration 🖤🧡 Part 10.

as a girl in america, i am frightened the end of roe vs. wade. i am devastated, i am angry, i am exhausted. i'm probably not the only one feeling this way, i can imagine. and you are every bit allowed and justified to feel this way.

i guess i just want to say, that far too often, our emotions are portrayed as just another emotional woman, just another crazy person. but we're not crazy to feel this way, at all.

so before you channel your anger into resources, protests, bills, funds and more, please take a moment to yourself. i know that it seems like everything is falling apart, and it might be, but life is too short for your justified feelings to fester inside yourself. let yourself cry, let yourself scream, let yourself feel those emotions that you are allowed to feel without being crazy, horrible, lazy or emotional. you are none of those things.

and perhaps, when the dust has settled and you have let out your feelings, i hope you can feel a little bit better, before we jump back into the fight for our rights.

I once heard somewhere that the opposite of dysregulation is self expression

Any time that our emotions feel like they're out of control, or we feel empty and hollow, or like we're anxious or scared or shaking and tense for some other reason, or we're so apathetic to everything around us that it's hard to get ourselves to do anything, that's emotional dysregulation. A lot of people think that the opposite of that is just nothingness, but I heard somewhere once that the opposite is actually self expression, like writing about it, talking about it, painting about it, anything that lets those feelings be seen and expressed and felt and released.

I wonder if that's why art can be so healing. I wonder if writing just a little something about it whenever I have the energy for it, could maybe help.