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The River of Your Emotional Life
posted by Bridgette Boudreau on Wednesday, August 11, 2010CATEGORY: All
Think of your emotions like a river.
When you overeat, overdrink, overshop, whatever, it’s like building a dam with sticks, but the only thing that happens is the river builds up behind the sticks until it flows over and through them. The river actually becomes more powerful and concentrated the more you try to stop it. The way to make a river gentler is by widening the banks and smoothing the slope, which in terms of your emotions means allowing them to exist. When your emotions feel big, create a bigger space for them. Allow them to flow. Don’t try to constrict them with dams made of Cheetos and cute shoes.
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August 11th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Love “Cheetos and cute shoes”. Or Mojitos and Manolos! Hypothetically speaking, that is.
August 11th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
And if the dam becomes so big, the force of it can create a swirling, sucking eddy of despair that we try to fill with cupcakes and Kate Spade.
August 11th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
This is fabulous, Bridgette. Great metaphor and one that definitely speaks to me today!
August 12th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Wow, Bridgette. This is GREAT writing. And yes, the metaphors are everywhere if we are willing to see. A simple and powerful piece.
August 12th, 2010 at 9:02 am
And I have a mountain of shoes to prove you right, Bridgette! Thanks for the reminder to honor my emotions… and as you say, to let them flow.
August 12th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Thanks everyone for stopping by and commenting–not that shoes are a bad thing…
December 10th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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