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Do you struggle with indulgent emotions?
The difference between indulging and processing emotions.
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Do you struggle with indulgent emotions?
Something I struggled with for a very long time was self-pity.
I was an expert at stewing on how I’d been wronged; why things were never going to work out for me; I played out entire worlds of scenarios in my head of how things “should” have gone if only the other people involved, and fate, had understood what really was the best for everybody, particularly me.
Along the way, I think I had an understanding that was a bit mixed up: that this was what it looked like to process my emotions.
I’ve long known enough that suppression of emotions wasn’t helpful; I couldn’t stuff away anger or grief or doubt and expect it to resolve.
