Do you ever get annoyed that you’re sad about something? Annoyed that you’re mad about something? Annoyed that you’re basically feeling emotion.
For me, it comes from this pressure to be strong or be invincible.
It's like be so strong that you don’t get thrown off your rocker or have any emotion.
Here is what I remind myself in these moments.
I am not invincible, but I am resilient.
I am allowed to bend and I won’t break.
I am allowed to feel all the feels, and then move forward.
But I don’t think the resiliency to get up and move forward happens overnight. It has to be built.
Resilience is built when we continually choose to show up for ourselves. When we say each day “today I’m going to do something to take care of myself.”
Then when a tough time or emotion does come, we feel more capable of taking it on and moving forward.
You aren’t invincible, but you are resilient.
