Today I am realizing how often I try to outrun emotions that I do not want to deal with. I convince myself I am too busy to feel them. I stack responsibilities on top of them. I tell myself I will deal with it later. But emotions have a way of waiting for you. They linger under the surface, quiet but persistent, and they show up in places you never expected.
Today I feel something rising that I pushed down for too long. I don’t know if it is sadness or frustration or fear, but I can feel it sitting in my chest, asking to be acknowledged. And instead of running from it, I am choosing to sit with it for a moment. My heart deserves that. Your heart deserves that too. If you feel something surfacing today, let it breathe. You do not have to figure it out right now. You just have to stop pretending it is not there.
Journal Prompts:
What emotion have I been avoiding and why?
Where do I feel this emotion in my body?
What does this emotion want me to understand about myself?
Your emotions are not disruptions. They are signals. When you stop running from them, you begin healing the parts of you that have been waiting the longest.
Return to this entry whenever something rises inside you that you do not want to face alone.