Since I realized that feeling my feelings, whatever they are, is so important to my mental and social health, I built a few tools to whip out when feelings come up.

It’s all just too much. It honestly is. We try to pretend it isn’t, but that’s a silly lie. It’s absolutely too much, yet somehow we are still all doing it.

Here is what I’m learning: feelings are the heart of everything.

Whether it’s conscious or unconscious, we all do it.

Underneath the Christmas tree was a minefield of disappointment.