Joanne Smith argues that feelings and bodily sensations are how your mind communicates, and ignoring them only makes them louder. She compares suppressed frustration to a nagging child pulling at your trouser leg, growing more insistent the longer you ignore it. Smith urges curiosity toward your emotions instead of self-criticism.
So yeah, it's kind of like the opposite because some people struggle with getting moving, and I had that at first, and then I got moving, and then I couldn't not move. Anyway, we all have a really, really individual journey on this, and I just want to encourage each and every one of you to just see what— just be curious for what's happening with you. And And just get in touch if there's anything that you want to talk through, but don't beat yourself up for any of this stuff because, you know, it's not your fault. This is how it works, it's just how humans work, and we can't get messages, we can only get in the form of feelings or bodily sensations, And the issue is that if we ignore those and push them aside and just— because they're there to get our attention and it's impossible to ignore them, but if we get angry and try and get frustrated, well, not try, if we just feel frustrated and push it away, then it's just like a little kid that's nagging at you, that's pulling on your trouser leg, getting louder and louder. And wondering why are things getting worse.
