@Glisten I'll pull up a chair for sure. I've got Restlessness and a lurking sense of Overwhelm hanging out, but also got room for Contentment and Solace - I think they always have a seat with me while I'm here, because I love my work so much and it gives me a sense of calm to know I can be here for, and here with, the lovely forums fam.
Hmmm... the ones you've listed, Inadequate, Failure, You Don't Matter - they're more like value judgements, or labels. Something I've learned, both through my time as a therapist and my time as a client, is that we often identify things as emotions that aren't really emotions. Something that can help is using this big fella:
So even my Restlessness might be better labelled as Stimulated or Irritable (it can definitely be the latter, but today it's the former, thankfully). And my Overwhelmed might be more Worried with a smidge of Powerless (adulting is hard and I can never seem to get on top of my to-do list lol). If you want to, you could use this to identify the emotions that are underlying the labels you've shared? Up to you of course! I just find it to be a super helpful exercise for myself, even doing so here has been illuminating haha.
Scones are one of my favs! All warm n fluffy and piled with jam n cream! Thanks for the tag hun 💜
