While emotions are endlessly fascinating to me , they can be messy . They can be inconvenient . We don ’ t always want to deal with them . If we pay attention to our emotions , we sometimes discover we have work to do . Facing the truth of them can feel vulnerable and scary . I ’ ve had clients who say , “ What if I start crying and I can ’ t stop ?”
All you need to do in this moment is get curious about what you feel . You are not your emotions — you have them ; they don ’ t have you . When you let yourself feel them and listen to what they ’ re telling you , you ’ ll be empowered .
Take my client Mina for example . I still remember working with Mina on a particularly thorny problem . We ’ d gone outside to walk and talk . As the waves of the Pacific crashed on the shore , my bare feet made footprints alongside Mina ’ s . We watched the tide rush up and washed them away . Taking my VIP coaching clients to the beach is one of my favorite ways to refresh
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