Learning To Live With Emotions

Author: Kellen Thornton

After years of repressing emotions – a common coping strategy for adult children – this pamphlet offers tips to help us begin to recognize, respect, and express emotions appropriately.

(The term, “Adult Child” means anyone who grew up in dysfunction or alcoholism in their childhood and who thereby learned to stuff their feelings or at least didn’t learn how to express them in a healthy manner.)

Excerpt:
“For an adult child, recognition and healthy expression of emotions can be confusing and even painful.  The mental and emotional patterns we learned so long ago may have guaranteed acceptance in our dysfunctional families, but in adulthood these patterns have only worked against us.  We can shed these old patterns and claim full responsibility for our behavior.  We can fully appreciate our potential for growth in each incident.”