Hello readers!
I want you to know that your lived experience is valid.
If you often find yourself being sad, disappointed, angry or otherwise upset about your life and then stop yourself by saying, “Other people have had it way worse than me,” I invite you to watch this video.
Make more room for yourself, your feelings, and your lived experience.
If it is coming up within you, it wants to be healed.
Please watch the video below for more insights on this phrase, and how I respond to my clients in sessions when this comes up (which is very often).
Much love,
Elise
If you find yourself de-validating your own experience by responding to your own hurt with “It wasn’t that bad, other people have had it so much worse than me,”, I encourage you to do the following:
- Stop
- Take a breath
- Grab your journal
- Ask yourself these questions and write out the answers:
- Who said this to me?
- What was the situation that was happening when they said this?
- How did that make me feel?
- What sense of control did I feel in this situation?
- What sense of control do I feel over the problem that I am having today?
- How am I feeling about this situation today?
What you allow yourself to feel, you can heal. Please take this as an opportunity to tend to yourself today.
To learn more about ACEs, click here.
