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Luggage

Its that time of year where in our environment the airports are full on a daily basis.  During the holidays it is common to travel and spend time at airports.  A common sight in airports is always the people running extremely late to their plane while also carrying excessive amounts of luggage with them.  I often glimpse at these people as they run through the terminal weighed down with all the baggage.  I cannot help but think our emotions work the same way.  When we are carrying plenty of stress and negative emotions we are weighed down from moving at our normal pace.  Unless we start shedding some of our emotional luggage we continue to meander through life slower and slower.

At Emotion Station we work to help shed the negative emotions and find ways to live life without the emotional luggage that weighs us down.  Emotions match behaviors and thoughts, and if we carry negative emotions on a consistent basis it changes the relationships and dynamics of our lives.  When entering negative emotion, we face a choice whether to keep the luggage and carry it or release it for someone else to carry.  As we continue to keep the luggage it begins to pile up becoming more frustrating every day.  Some of us begin then to take on other people’s luggage and decide to carry it with their own luggage.  Now we are in a state of limited options and choices because we are so weighed down.  Finally, when we can no longer carry the luggage, we stop and possibly even breakdown.  Emotions are the same way and if we continue to stuff and repress we eventually explode.

The good news is relief is here at Emotion Station as we can help shed some of the emotions and make life lighter to navigate through.  Start the New Year off right by shedding the past emotional luggage that weighs you down.  Call us today to get your journey started 239-317-3115.

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