Are you a bottler or brooder? 💭
Everyone has a different method of coping, and some are more productive than others.
Sometimes we settle deeply into our negative feelings and struggle to get beyond them.
2/ Bottlers push emotions to the side and get on with things.
Bottling may look like:
- Suppressing emotions
- Forcing yourself to “think positively"
- Exerting an imagined control over an emotion
3/ Brooders can’t let go.
Brooding may look like:
- Constantly discussing an emotional situation
- Ruminating on an emotion under the guise of conscientious effort
- Losing perspective
4/ When we bottle or brood, we lose our ability to be fully engaged with the world around us, and openness and enthusiasm are replaced by rules, judgments, and confining stories from our past.
5/ Bottling and brooding are short-term emotional aspirin we reach for with the best of intentions.
But when we don’t go directly to the source of the problem, we miss the ability to really deal with what’s causing our distress.
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