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Even when their feelings are completely appropriate and a
natural response to the kind of things that are taking place in
their world at that time, they feel emotionally overwhelmed
and they don’t know how to handle this or how to cope.

They lack an understanding of the way that they feel and they
have no emotional language and no emotional vocabulary that
will enable them to relate, understand and engage with what’s
actually going on for them.

It is not uncommon for people to struggle to talk about their
feelings and to make sense of them. This can come about for
many reasons.

Sometimes we are fearful of what others may think of us.
Many of us grew up in a world where showing any kind of
emotion, beyond our happy feelings, was frowned upon or
discouraged and as a consequence we may have developed all
kinds of internal perceptions and inner messages within our
mind that leave us feeling bad… about feeling bad!

Sometimes we simply have no idea why we are feeling the
way that we do. Our emotions seem random; we wake up not
feeling ok without any understanding of why.

This can feel frightening and challenges us beyond belief, we
feel as though we ourselves are out of our own control and
can end up becoming fearful of our own feelings. Fearful of
the power of our own emotions!

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