“The extent to which you can heal and grow is in direct correlation with how much truth you can accept about yourself without any distraction, suppression, or avoidance.“
Have you been running away from your feelings and emotions?
I’ve spent years trying to “be okay” by:
☑️ Distracting myself from feeling down by going out and eating out most of the time, filling my evenings with more networking events, and buying things I didn’t really want or need just because it’s “shopping therapy”.
☑️ Suppressing my emotions by burying myself in work. As a former startup founder, working 14-15 hours a day, seven days a week, was my daily average for five years.
☑️ Avoiding negative feelings about myself by also avoiding any actual help from friends or professionals because “I am independent and can do things on my own”.
For weeks, saying affirmations out loud like “I am good enough”, “I am amazing”, or “I am proud of myself” while looking at myself in the mirror felt so cringey and foreign to me.
For months, I made an appointment with a therapist, ghosted her, and avoided any help until the day I was in a downward spiral and knew there was a high possibility I would do something stupid to myself.
For years, I thought I was “happy” and “okay” because I got to live the startup, digital nomad lifestyle where I could work and travel from anywhere I wanted and control my own schedule.
⚠️ BUT what I didn’t realise I was actually doing all along was, I stopped myself from healing and growing because I kept running away from myself.
Recently, I’ve been working with a number of clients who came to me because they said they couldn’t feel, let alone cry. Everything just felt numb, like living a life on a somewhat flat line.
And although we had to work on the ‘learning how to feel the feelings’ part, what struck me (and reminded me of my own personal healing journey as well) is that they came to me because they finally began to accept the truth about themselves: the truth that they could not continue suppressing their emotions anymore, the truth that they were willing to accept help in order to heal, and the truth that they had to face these challenges in order to make peace with their past, let go, and move on.
So, if you’re curious to know how I can help you stop suppressing your emotions and finally heal and grow, book your FREE 30-minute consultation call with me today.
With love & light,
Eve