Unpacking my Additions to Emotions

Episode 84

2 years ago

I have addictions to emotions. Yup, I used to think that patterns only played out in things I did, or how I interacted with people, but our patterns actually run much deeper than that. Our patterns flow around words, emotions, thoughts, and all of them funnel through a path in our brain, making some of those pathways much smoother, slipperier, easier to fall into than others. Something I like to think about it this way - if you go back in time to a moment where you're asked to say something great about yourself, an accomplishment, an achievement, something you did, just you, think about how that idea processes. For most of us it's uncomfortable to think about. We feel cocky, entitled, braggy even. 

But that’s only because those patterns in our brains feel sketchy and uncomfortable, leaving us with the feeling of uncomfortability that if we are saying something good about ourselves, we doubt that…. Let that sink in for a moment.

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Caitlin Durning