Your Emotions Are Information, Not Instructions

The uncomfortable truth about “protecting your energy”

“I think you might be using your feelings as a reason not to do things,” my therapist said, pulling her glasses off. Her words knocked the wind out of me. Obviously, I didn’t go back after that session.

She was the one who first taught me about my emotions. Before her, I didn’t have language for what was happening inside me. I just knew something was wro…