It’s Okay Not to be Okay
- Newbeginnings (NBCC-BW)
- Jun 19
- 2 min read
The thing about emotions is that noticing the triggers is important, but equally important is describing the emotion that you may be feeling. Ask yourself, What it is that you are feeling? What emotion is it that you are experiencing ?
# Describe it and allow yourself to experience your emotion, whatever emotion it is.
Do not label it as good or bad. Just allow yourself to experience it.
Do not prevent the emotion.
Do not cover up the emotion.
Do not try to avoid the emotion.
Do not try to deflect the emotion.
Do not try to hold on to the emotion. Allow yourself to feel it, recognize it, notice it, but avoid holding on to it where you stay angry for months, weeks, or the whole day. Notice the emotions and embrace it; just sit with the emotion. Don’t fight the emotion.
Do not try to strengthen that emotion.
How do we strengthen the emotion?
When we allow ourselves to ruminate, to keep having the thought that triggered the emotion, or the incident that triggered it playing out in our mind/head over and over like a “broken record” because, the more you keep on playing out the thought in your head, the more the emotion you are feeling intensifies; especially when it’s anger or sadness coming from what somebody may have done, or what you may have experienced or seen happening. to someone you care about. So, do not try to strengthen the emotion.
Just describe it, What is it that you are feeling?
How does it look like if it had a colour?, What does it smell like if it had a scent?
# Remember: Your emotion does not make you who you are; You are not your emotion and it is okay not to be okay. Learn to decode the message behind your emotion.
# Emotions carry a message, explore and learn from it.
From New Beginnings CounsellingBW: Short/It’s Okay Not to be Okay, 10 Jun 2026
This material maybe protected by copyright.
Comments