- Are you hurting?
- Do you have unresolved feelings?
- Are you stuck in the hurting-back cycle?
- Does eating, shopping, drinking, traveling, hoarding, napping take it for away for a while?
Maybe it's something I didn't mention.
Be it emotional, physical or spiritual hurt, a "holiday" or the "new year" seems to magnify the suffering.
Hurting people tend to resort to compulsive behaviors to cope with the pain.
Sadly, unhealthy patterns of thinking and behaving only serve to bury and irritate the pain.
Compulsive coping teaches us to deal with a problem by pushing it away. It becomes an automatic reflex to avoid the discomfort.
And in my case...until my body decided it had
HAD ENOUGH.
Over the next few days, I want to share 4 Healthy Options for Coping with HURT.
😊Let's enter 2022 with some better coping mechanisms under our belt.
