Today’s feelings come to you from the vantage point of my kitchen floor, where I’m sitting surrounded by unpacked tote bags and unopened mail packages. We spent the weekend away, with family, and so our house feels stale and crowded with luggage and laundry. Yet it’s Sunday afternoon, and the chores can wait.
I started seeing a new therapist this week and something she said that has stuck with me since our session:
Allow yourself to feel what you feel, but set a timer for these feelings.
In other words, lean in to your feelings but don’t let them to sweep you away. Stay in control. Change your vantage point often so that you can see varying perspectives.
From the vantage point of my kitchen floor, I am small and the world continues spinning regardless of my feelings. Sometimes that feels unfair — don’t we all wish to have time pause so we can sulk as needed? — but right now, it feels like a gift, a reminder that a grain of sand is nothing in an expansive desert.
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