Thanks for sharing your situation and love your way as you’re recovering from surgery.
A couple emotions you mentioned were bitter and frustrated. Take some time to be with those emotions. Put your hand on your heart if you’d like, and breath into them. Notice what it feels like in your body to be frustrated and bitter. Describe where it is in your body, the shape, size, color, texture, and anything else you notice about the emotion.
Knowing that you can feel any emotion can be powerful, so taking time to practice feeling whatever you’re feeling, will strengthen your emotional muscles.
Let’s also explore a few of your thoughts:
My in-laws are incredibly insensitive.
I don’t want them in my life.
I wish they were different.
I encourage you to put each of these thoughts in the model and see what comes up for you. Share what you discover if you’d like.
A couple things to remember:
We have manuals for other people, and often they don’t know what is in our manual. *Take a listen to my podcast #74 called A Manual for more info. Listen HERE
We can’t change other people. When we stop trying to change them and simply accept them for who they are, even when we don’t like it, it starts to lighten things up for us.
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