Your feelings should not be judged. How you respond to them is what takes careful observation.
I have felt angry for the past few days. I don’t like it. I know the source of the anger and it is expected for me to feel this way but I do not enjoy it.
I clinch my jaw and fists which causes tension throughout my body. I have a short fuse with people I love. I say unnecessary and cutting things because I have the gift and curse of a razor sharp tongue. When I get angry, it’s guaranteed someone is going to be handed their head and it’s guaranteed I will feel guilty afterwards.
So although the feeling is completely natural, my response is usually not so good.
I woke up this morning and spent my meditation and prayer time seeking answers on how to manage these feelings. I opened my book to find this…
“It’s okay to be angry, but it isn’t healthy to be resentful.”
I always say the answers to life’s questions are there, but only if we are actively seeking them with open eyes. This was certainly the case for me this morning.
I realized it isn’t the anger that is making me feel discontent, it is the resentment I am allowing it to build. So what do I do to stop the resentment from building?
Look at where the anger is stemming from and accept that the feelings are justified.
Feel the anger, express it in an honest way and release it.
Then, be done with it.
Our feelings are just feelings and outside of our control.
What we do with them is what we can control.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
