“Our biggest issue is not that we experience difficult thoughts and feelings; our biggest issue is that we hate them and wish they’d go away.” – Jasmin Terrany, LMHC Continue reading “Thoughts that help my balance… With love, Jasmin”
Category: Struggles
Embracing Sadness
People are so attached to positivity and to being happy that they are very scared to let themselves be sad. I try to take care of my sadness like it’s a little kid. I treat my sadness as a little child inside me and I soothe it and let it know that it is okay to be sad. The most important thing is to not reject your sadness or your pain but to actually stop and sit, and be able to take care of it. Continue reading “Embracing Sadness”
Thoughts that help my balance… With love, Jasmin
“Through our pain we can access our truth…. ” – Jasmin Terrany, LMHC Continue reading “Thoughts that help my balance… With love, Jasmin”
Do I actually accept myself fully or am I avoiding my "stuff"?
When dealing with difficult emotions, it can be confusing to spot the difference between avoidance and acceptance. So if you think of difficult emotions as this little black box of difficult, hurt, pain, feelings, and oftentimes we think that we’re accepting them by distracting ourselves and doing other things, where in essence we’re actually avoiding them and not dealing with them. Continue reading “Do I actually accept myself fully or am I avoiding my "stuff"?”
