Tag: emotional baggage
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Releasing the Baggage
My burden clings to me like the shell of a caddis fly nymph, protecting the tender beginnings of the immature creature within. I’m floating through space toward the light like a slow moving comet, trailing a tail of debris. Seemingly at once I detach and watch the shell, the accumulation of life’s conclusions, continue on…
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Is Someone Shoulding on you? Are You Shoulding on Yourself?
One of the words Patricia Evans talks about in her book “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” is the word “should”. To tell someone they “should” do this, or “should” do that, is a controlling way of communicating. Shoulding is of the ways we abuse ourselves and others. Shoulding suggests shame if you don’t do what you…
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Tracking Your Emotions.
Tracking intense emotions . . . . . .. . … . .. . . . .. . .. . .. . … . In my last post I made this brash statement: “Understanding how shame is affecting me, and understanding how shame began when I was young and how I…
Michele Ballantyne 