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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