Can I be with that?
Maybe you don't need to calm tf down
Aug 6, 202514 minS0
<p></p><p>How many times have you tried to ‘calm the F down’ in the midst of a moment where it felt nearly impossible to be calm? </p><p>Shoulding on yourself for how you need to be more “regulated” or how you “should be better able to deal with this [anxiety, fear, shame, overwhelm etc.] by now…” This tendency to judge and power-over our feelings is something most of us find ourselves doing at one point or another. Oscillating between the actual anxiety and the shame about the anxiety, one feeling feeding the other, the inner tension growing so big we have...
