Let’s talk about feelings.
Although we’ve come a long way, culturally most of us still struggle to be with our feelings and the feelings of others. I think of where I live, the United States, as pretty feeling illiterate. If that’s a phrase. Frozen in an adolescent mindset. Stunted from being able to be with complex emotions like rage or grief.
I’ve been working with complex emotions myself recently. Big, multilayered, grief, to name one, after losing our child in a miscarriage this March. The experience reminded me again just how much we struggle as a society to be with difficult feelings.
I’ve learned that I feel differently than most people as a sensitive person. Being a sensitive person is a complex and interesting way to live. Because as a sensitive person,