If You Want to Feel Better, Write a Love Letter!

When we choose to bury our feelings, we act differently. We may not make ourselves available to others and may withdraw, or just not be fully engaged when we do spend time with other people. At other times, we can react inappropriately because our emotions are pulling us in a different direction from where we really want or need to go. When you express how you really feel (in an appropriate manner), problems get solved, relationship issues get resolved, and life is easier. In addition, you will like your life better because you’re not holding on to unhealed or confusing feelings.

     ~Barton Goldsmith Ph.D

Are you experiencing any of these symptoms?

• A lack of ambition or motivation
• Blowing up over minor incidents
• Depression without an apparent cause
• Difficulty talking about yourself
• Fatigue
• Feeling your anger not at the time something happens but a few days later
• Head and body aches
• Laughing on the outside while crying on the inside
• Pretending something doesn’t matter when inside it does matter
• Rarely talking about your feelings
• Troubled relationships
• Walking around with a knot in your stomach or tightness in your throat

If this sounds like you, releasing pent up emotions may be just what you need to feel good again.

Are you ready to alleviate unpleasant physical, emotional, and mental symptoms that are keeping you from living the life you want?

How to write a love letter

First, begin by thinking of someone in which you have unfinished business.

Then express your anger, resentment and blame and allow yourself to move through the other levels until you get down to the Love.

This LOVE LETTER has five parts – and the following sentence starters may help you if you get stuck in one level and need to move into the next.

1. ANGER AND BLAME

2. HURT AND SADNESS

3. FEAR AND INSECURITY

4. GUILT AND RESPONSIBILITY

5. LOVE, FORGIVENESS, UNDERSTANDING AND HOPE

Writing this type of love letter is particularly helpful because it addresses negative as well as positive emotions. When you are ready to get in touch with ALL your feelings, and when your buried emotions are manifesting into headaches, stomachaches, addictions, depression, etc…..

REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO FEEL BETTER, WRITE A LOVE LETTER!!!

Warm Regards,

Gina McKee

Gina McKee is a yoga enthusiast, movie buff, and a firm believer in the MindBody connection. Her app, Chai Pro-Insight to go, is available from Amazon, ITunes and Google Play. She also has a private practice in O’Fallon, Il. specializing in counseling women and children of all ages.

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