FEELINGS:

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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