#Repost @createthelove (@get_repost) ・・・ What were the messages you received around emotion growing up? • There's often a large cultural/societal message we receive around emotions for both men and women... "If you're a guy, you don't have feelings. If you do, don't share the sad ones. If you do share feelings, be angry, cause that's how men express pain. If you cry, you're a pussy." And for women, some are, "You are too emotional. Too needy. You're overly emotional and so much more dramatic than needed. Please everyone around you, and never nurture your own needs." • I'm sure we have all felt these and often many others. It's important to understand what the messages you received were surrounding communication and emotions because that is almost always why you communicate (or don't) the way you do. • Love and connection require vulnerability. It requires us to step into the space of sharing things that may not be reciprocated. It requires finding the courage to expose our hearts. And this communication and vulnerability might feel SO terrifying... but when you don't share how you feel, you reject yourself... and then you'll project that rejection onto your partner/friends/family. • So everything we fear, we birth. (i.e. We don't share how we feel because we're afraid of being hurt/rejected, and us not sharing is us rejecting ourselves.) • So, birth love. Be open. By sharing how you feel, you send the message to yourself that your emotions are worthy of being loved and accepted. That's powerful shit. #createthelove
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