Why does this keep happening to me?! Learning to witness our truth and find freedom from unhelpful emotional & behaivoural patterns.

Our life schedule often doesn’t permit time for emotional processing, often we are running from one thing to the next or not in the right place to be able to let the mask fall and feel what we need to feel.

The challenge is though that our emotions get bigger and bigger until we acknowledge them and by this stage they can be so incredibly overwhelming as we are often feeling more than one emotion with our pain from the past also being triggered in the present.

Often then when we do experience big displays of emotions we then try and explain them away completely invalidating ourselves and criticising ourselves for feeling at all. These avoidance safety behaviours don’t actually allow us to develop an awareness of why our emotions are there and what they are trying to tell us we need.

Without awareness that goes deeper than just the trigger and unveils the story that lies beneath we will unfortunately keep repeating the same patterns.

Journaling is a healthy way to hold space for yourself when you experience big emotions, to help you observe what is happening and why while taking the edge off the intensity as you are dividing your attention.

The other benefit of journaling is it often helps our emotions to pass faster and by the end of it we have insight and awareness into what the emotions are telling us we need so the next time we are triggered we can make conscious choice and choose ourselves.