Unprocessed Emotions Quotes

We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

My whole life, I've seen things I can't unsee.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!