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It's a strange paradox that in a world on fire, and a United States seemingly imploding, my mental health is flourishing like never before. The contrast is stark, but it's my current reality.
There's a part of me that feels guilty even saying it. In a world as messed up as ours, it seems wrong to be feeling 'this good'.
I acknowledge the privilege I have (of being in a good mental state during these times), and I understand that not everyone is as fortunate (and many people have slid in the opposite direction). However, I feel great (and am trying to embrace that feeling)!
Welcome back to another Founding Member Post!
Twice each month I will put out an exclusive post like this one (often on a more intimate and personal topic, book sneak peeks, OR featuring some of the training materials I’m teaching) that will be brought to you by and for our Founding Members.
When I am scheduling this post, we have Forty Three Founding Members!
I won’t put them on the spot today, but you know who you are. I can’t thank you enough for your support (especially in this moment).
I am learning not to feel guilty about my feelings (after a lifetime of repressing and pushing away any feeling, thought, habit, or emotion that I was led by society to believe was "bad" or "shameful") because I have learned that feelings, even the unpleasant ones, often are keys to self understanding (if we can tune into them).
For most of my life I was a master of "not feeling" because I'd been trained to ignore my internal compass, tune out, and disconnect from anything within me society said I shouldn't feel - a tricky task for someone highly sensitive by nature, and a person who tends to have "very big feelings" about things.
I was a “sensitive" kid, who was often told I was "too much" or "not enough" for the given situation, so I learned to moderate myself, becoming so attached to the personas that I projected to the world that I lost sight of who I really was (and for a time had completely lost my sense of self).
It has taken me years, specifically 9, to reclaim my true self and overcome a lifetime of trauma that began in my formative years. I have built myself up, worked hard to get to where I am now, and that is something I've grown proud of.
