No, I Don't Think It's Weird

Right from your first appointment with me, and through the ones that follow, I acknowledge that you know your body way better than I do. Actually, you know yourself much better than any other person.

Something I will hear from clients often is "I know this sounds weird but it feels like _______________", or "I'm feeling ____________ (anxious, depressed, upset) and I have no reason to", or "I've been told I just have to live with this pain, but I'm not sure I agree with that."

My response is "No, I don't think it sounds weird. If that is how you are experiencing what is going on let's trust that and work with it," or "You don't have to justify emotions that you're feeling, maybe the reason isn't apparent to you consciously at this moment, but you feel how you feel, let's honour that," or "Let's see if there is an alternative to living with the pain."

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I believe that we all have sensations and feelings throughout our body, mind and spirit that we can't necessarily understand or find the words for. It doesn't make them any less real in their impact upon us.  

There is quite a lot of chatter on social media where people are discouraged from believing what they see, feel and hear but instead to believe something entirely different. That can create a disconnect within. However if you are grounded in your understanding, and have trust that you know yourself better than anyone else, it's not as easy to be swayed. There's some empowerment to that.

Recently I was in a conversation on a social media thread where an individual who was a friend of a friend, (someone I did not know) spent a great deal of time and effort in attempting to persuade me that what I saw in a video clip and how I felt about what I saw, was wrong. 

Even as I presented the idea that as different people it was ok for us each to have experienced different feelings about the video clip. They continually pushed that I had not seen what I had seen and that my feelings were incorrect. They went on to tell be how I ​should feel and how I should perceive what I saw.

It's easy to question yourself and feel somewhat disempowered when faced with that. Being told how to feel, or what our perception should be can come at us from many different avenues in our lives. 

​While I'm open to different points of view and am constantly open to learning new ideas, I also feel comfortable in owning my feelings and acknowledging them. The same goes for my interactions with you. I am comfortable in acknowledging that you feel how you feel, that you're experiencing what you are. 

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My hope is that brings you some sense of empowerment and trust in yourself.