Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

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when a single challenge begins to become a chronic issue.
Unable to honor and use the guidance of the emotion, we
shut the feeling down, store it in our bodies, and try to
avoid anything that might bring it up again. This is when
we become sensitive to the world around us, because there
are a lot of repressed feelings mounting.
On the surface, it seems as though the thing that triggers
our emotional response is the problem. It is not. The problem
is that we don’t know what to do with how we feel
and therefore do not have all of the emotional processing
skills that we need.
When we can identify why something is triggering us, we
can use the experience as a catalyst for a release and positive
life change.
HOW TO INTERPRET
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
Though everyone’s particular triggers are unique to them,
it helps to better understand the function of some of the
feelings that we often condemn.
Some of the emotions that are most strongly connected
with self-sabotaging behaviors are actually important for
us to better understand. It is not about simply “getting
over” them; it is about listening to what they are trying to
tell us about our experience.