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A Rainbow Or A Mess?

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Throughout the years, I have described emotions as a rainbow. Each emotion has a color, and they are all important. Without any one color, it can't be a rainbow, there is no balance! Lately, life has taken on lots of different 'colors'. Ones' I hadn't felt for a long time...and they are scary.

I blocked out mental pain, physical pain, and anger for many years, living in denial of any emotion. Existing. Not living, not thriving.

Life had no 'color', no passion, no hope. Didn't miss it, only had it once...3 years of having my babies. That was 31 years ago. I shut down as many emotions I knew by name, and many that I couldn't put words to. I was a workaholic medical assistant. Codepence was my way of staying in my own habits of proscrastination in my life , and being a 'friend-aholic' (needing to have my friends around, or having them need me around to keep my sanity).

Now, as I decide to try my best to change some of the basic things that I believe about myself that are bad. I have found that the more bad emotion that I allow myself to feel, that pretty, smooth look to the rainbow gets more like a child's fingerpainting with all the colors smeared together. No order, no rhyme. It almost gets black when all the colors have blended. Like a big storm. Gotta work towards being the best 'me' that I can be, and that means finding bright, white, and exciting colors that my 'darkside' can't be what I see and feel.

But, because I have a wise friend and advisor, today I've had a breakthrough. The colors of MY rainbow are smoothing out, and it's looking and feeling more normal. During the 'storm' it FELT pretty dark, but I realized that it WASN'T dark. My friend shined the light, just the right way, and there was my perfect rainbow again. Thank you, Wise Friend.

I am going to walk confidently (as much as I can) and try to 'know' in my heart and mind that I can and will conquer some of my long-standing 'roadblocks'. And, I ain't giving up! Not an option!

There is a new 'rainbow' in my heart...my son is becoming a father...so I finally get to be a gramma. He has always told me he wanted me to a big part of his children's lives', and that is going to happen. I've been craving the feelings that come when I take care of, hold, and smell a newborn baby. Nothing like it!

Yep, life can be a rainbow, we just have to deal with the rain, and storms (floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons). But, they PASS, the sun shines, and somewhere there is the rainbow, very worth the storm, that brought growth along with the rain.

Thanks for taking the time to read!
 
AKJ, I AM so glad that you not only reopened the door to those sealed off emotions, but wrote about what is FEELS like to do so here. I am proud of you, and I like the rainbow I see in you (though I do have my favorite colors/feelings, mind you!)! :)

There are oh so many different rainbows out there just waiting to be discovered, like these:
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But you are the only one who can draw your own. So get started, my friend!

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Oh AnjelkeeperJ what a great analogy!

I can so associate with what you have shared as I too, was afraid of all those dark and mixed up emotions. I, too, see the rainbow much more clearly now than ever before and I whenever a dark emotion comes along a go and do something to help balance the colours.

If you spin all the colours of the rainbow together you get white! Absolutely true! Pure white light! We just have to be spun a few times before we find it.

Well done sweetie you are well on your way!:tup:

A rainbow just for you that was over my garden recently. (Look closely, it's a double bow)
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Yes, Cath is correct, AKJ. Think of your prism crystals. They take "white light" and break it into its spectrum of "colors", a rainbow. And black is the absence of "light/color" which fits perfectly with the darkness and dark feelings you wrote about.

But of course, when finger-painting if you layer too many colors on top of each other, like you described, it does yield a dismal brown color (almost black) - not pretty at all!!!

So if you think in terms of light, "brightness/pure white" requires combining all colors together, but if you want to see that spectacular rainbow you have to be willing to "feel each color seperately". I applaud you for trying to do just that within yourself and for yourself!

Warmly Orange,
Alex
BTW, like your new avatar! :)
 
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