Ryan, what a beautiful and helpful post! As you say, and I totally agree, "Increasing my emotional vocabulary has been life-changing." I spent the majority of my adolescent and young adult years learning what I should have learned as a child, and I feel that doing so saved me years of my adult life.
Ryan, what a beautiful and helpful post! As you say, and I totally agree, "Increasing my emotional vocabulary has been life-changing." I spent the majority of my adolescent and young adult years learning what I should have learned as a child, and I feel that doing so saved me years of my adult life.
I'm glad you wrote about it, as I've observed this "lack" of emotional identification in most adults I meet and work with.
I believe that as we collectively work to identify our own emotions, we implicitly help others in the process, as you did by sharing your own journey.
Thank you for mentioning the importance of writing, kindness to ourselves, and self-grounding.
I appreciate your feedback, Katerina. You know how rare emotional identification is in adults. Sounds like you still learned it fairly early on. It wasn't until I was 41 and divorced that I learned about emotions, and I'm still learning daily.
I started early, but I'm a slow learner because I go in depth, sometimes too deep, and I'm still learning. I think this will continue throughout my life as I discover new shades of emotions with every interaction, dynamic, or situation.
The best time to rebuild yourself doesn't exist; if we look at ourselves kindly, we'll see why it wasn't possible before and now we're ready to experience something we may not have had the chance to before.
I'm inspired by your work and wish you lots of energy in your emotion exploration!
I love hearing that you're a slow learner who goes deep. I recall Eckhardt Tolle saying that Einstein was supposedly a slow learner. 'You have to be slow if you want to go deep,' he said.
The feeling is mutual. Wishing us both energy in our exploration!
Ryan, what a beautiful and helpful post! As you say, and I totally agree, "Increasing my emotional vocabulary has been life-changing." I spent the majority of my adolescent and young adult years learning what I should have learned as a child, and I feel that doing so saved me years of my adult life.
I'm glad you wrote about it, as I've observed this "lack" of emotional identification in most adults I meet and work with.
I believe that as we collectively work to identify our own emotions, we implicitly help others in the process, as you did by sharing your own journey.
Thank you for mentioning the importance of writing, kindness to ourselves, and self-grounding.
I appreciate your feedback, Katerina. You know how rare emotional identification is in adults. Sounds like you still learned it fairly early on. It wasn't until I was 41 and divorced that I learned about emotions, and I'm still learning daily.
I started early, but I'm a slow learner because I go in depth, sometimes too deep, and I'm still learning. I think this will continue throughout my life as I discover new shades of emotions with every interaction, dynamic, or situation.
The best time to rebuild yourself doesn't exist; if we look at ourselves kindly, we'll see why it wasn't possible before and now we're ready to experience something we may not have had the chance to before.
I'm inspired by your work and wish you lots of energy in your emotion exploration!
I love hearing that you're a slow learner who goes deep. I recall Eckhardt Tolle saying that Einstein was supposedly a slow learner. 'You have to be slow if you want to go deep,' he said.
The feeling is mutual. Wishing us both energy in our exploration!