Rebecca Kochenderfer

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When Your Emotions Feel Like a Storm 🌬️

Have you ever had one of those moments when your emotions feel like a storm - moving in every direction and making it hard to think clearly?


Hi ,


Have you ever had one of those moments when your emotions feel like a storm - moving in every direction and making it hard to think clearly?


That's something I've been thinking about lately.


In a recent video, I talked about how emotions can feel stormy, but they don't have to stay that way.


The chemical lifespan of an emotion is only about 90 seconds. What often keeps an emotion going is everything we add to it afterward-our thoughts, stories, resistance, or attempts to push it away.


So instead of fighting the feeling, we can practice letting it move through us:

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