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Please Stop 🛑 Emoting All Over Me
Sharing emotions is not about vomiting them all over unsuspecting victims.
There is a right way and a wrong way to share our emotions with others. There are people we should share our emotions with and people whom we should not share them with. There is a time to share and a time to shut-up.
Emotions Are an Internal Communication System
Our emotions are important. They are an internal messaging system. A way that our brain can send us a notification that something requires our attention.
Sometimes our brain just wants us to celebrate, so it signals joy or happiness. Celebration, joy, and happiness are an important part of both emotional and mental health.
Sometimes our brain sends us the emotion of fear to signal danger. Our brain thinks we should proceed carefully.
Sometimes it sends anger, frustration or, sadness our way.
We experience all of these emotions for reasons our brain believes is best for us.
Emotions Are Our Brains Gift to Us
But our emotions are for us. They are not for anybody else. This does not mean we shouldn’t share them. But sharing them in an uncontrollable…
