How do you feel things that you don’t want to feel?

[Hopeforlife]

I started therapy like this. Aware that to heal somewhat I had to feel. I always felt flat. No emotions/feelings what so ever. Finally, after a long time I started to really look after my body and mind and do yoga also still doing EMDR. It sort of put me in a place that I could finally let go a bit. I think re exposure through EMDR helped it along somewhat. I am starting to acknowledge feelings that have been locked in the past.

 

[EveHarrington]

I’m definitely going to bring it up in therapy again. Hopefully my therapist will have some advice. We seem to get sidetracked!

I guess anger doesn’t feel safe because I believe that it will scare people away. Maladaptive at this point as the two people I’m working on expressing anger towards are my ex and my dad! My ex is 100% out of my life for good and my dad is 99% out of my life.

I’m still just feeling anger in small fleeting spurts. Mostly I just feel sad for those two in a pitying sort of way.