Allowing Myself To Experience Emotions

[greycrayon]

I dont know how to break down the final wall, I keep on butting against it myself....its taken me about three years of therapy before I'm getting to the real emotions of crying and grief and heartbreak and anger and suffering.

 

[FindingMyself88]

I could've written this very post- in fact I was about too!

My therapist is having me go back to the basics and do a lot of art journaling. She has me put a color with an emotion. So for me anger is red, shame is yellow, orange is overwhelmed and afraid, sky blue is peace, dark blue is sadness, etc. then I do very abstract paintings each day with the colors I feel. I get frustrated trying to write out my feelings so this helps.

 

[greycrayon]

I could've written this very post- in fact I was about too!

My therapist is having me go back...

I have to do this too! Lots of red and I want it all thick when it comes out of the tube. Sometimes even that is hard and there is a block too.