FEELINGS:

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Years into recovery, we may still be battling with ourselves about
this issue, (feeling our feelings). Of all the prohibitions we've lived
with, this one is potentially the most damaging and the most
long-lived.

Many of us needed to shut down the emotional part of ourselves to
survive certain situations. We shut down the part of us that feels
anger, sadness, fear, joy, and love. We may have turned off our
sexual or sensual feelings too. Many of us lived in systems with
people who refused to tolerate our emotions. We were shamed or
reprimanded for expressing feelings, usually by people who were
taught to repress their own.

But times have changed. It is okay now for us to acknowledge and
accept our emotions. We don't need to allow our emotions to control
us; neither do we need to rigidly repress our feelings. Our emotional
center is a valuable part of us. It's connected to our physical
well-being, our thinking, and our spirituality.

Our feelings are also connected to that great gift, instinct. They
enable us to give and receive love.

We are neither weak nor deficient for indulging in our feelings.

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