Your Feelings Are Valid

and some more

your feelings are valid

(and, when you’re ready and have sat with it we can explore them further

what are they telling you? what automatic routes does it default to for your thoughts, actions, feelings and behaviours?)

(i’m not enough) (binge eating) (secondary shame feelings, I shouldn’t even be feeling “x”)

how can we focus on tackling what it’s telling you without defaulting to thoughts, actions, feelings that we may not want as much?

how do we lay them to rest?

— a way to speak to myself that was an entirely new language, but that I’d wished was a core part of my basic childhood education. Why do we learn to manage numbers but not our emotions?

Inviting Assumpta Nalubowa | Keegan Roembke | Dennett | Jade-Ceres Violet D. Munoz | Nia Simone McLeod | Winston | Julladonna Park | Wobbly Jester| Greg Proffit | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that writer’s block, join in on this tiny challenge and write a response, wherever it takes you! It can be a tiny poem, a shortform piece or an essay — whatever comes into that brain noodle!

Poetry Prompt: An internal monologue / sneak peek into how you think

Submit it to The Brain is a Noodle or be sure to tag me in your response if you publish elsewhere, so I can read it and share it with the world!

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Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and this is spoken from the depths of my heart. ❤ PS, I PUBLISHED A BOOK 📚

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^ by Allison Gaines