Day 8 - Question to Ponder

Are you having success at recognizing the emotions connected to your pain?
If you have, how do these emotions make you feel? If not, what do you think is preventing you from doing this? If you feel comfortable sharing, then post your response in a thread in the Structured Educational Program section of the PTPN's discussion forum. We would love to hear from you.

Yes, I am recognizing I have a lot of emotions in my subconscious that are slowly coming to the surface. It was not safe for me to express emotions as a child so I don't have the experience of feeling my emotions. It feels relieving to realize I have emotions in there and I am curious as to what will come out. So far some anger has come out and a lot of fear. The fear of not being safe is preventing me from feeling my emotions too much.

 

I can relate to this so much. I think my lack of experience finally caught up with me when I started digging around in my past. I wasn’t able to process all the feelings and they just were categorized as “danger.” Now I talk to my brain all the time and tell it it’s not dangerous to feel my feelings.

 

Yes there is just so much fear/danger here too. I do a similiar thing with my brain.