Tolerating uncomfortable emotions in the present

Very often, when doing the healing work, we forget that even though we have had negative and uncomfortable emotions tied to past painful experiences, we are still going to have normal negative feelings related to every day life stressors and changes. Without realizing it, we can associate negative emotion only with the past. And then when negative emotions do occur from the present, we feel like something is wrong or we must’ve missed something in our healing work. The healing work does not mean we will never feel uncomfortable again. It means that we can feel uncomfortable again, without being threatened by it, and allow ourselves those emotions and tolerate them.

Healing the Unresolved · Fr. Joshua Makoul, and Ancient Faith Ministries