🪷 Dear Thinking Brain
We can do better to help our poor, besmirched Feeling Brain
The Thinking Brain/Feeling Brain model comes from Mark Manson’s book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (which I highly recommend).
My Thinking Brain
tells my Feeling Brain,
"Stop worrying. Move on."
And Feeling Brain tries,
but soon it's at it again--
plus feeling wrong.
Dear Thinking Brain,
a better way
to help our Feeling Brain
is to speak like a kind parent
to a child: "I hear your pain." 💗
P.S. I am thinking that the way our Thinking Brain relates to our Feeling Brain comes directly from how our parents responded to our feelings when we were little, unless/until we work at reparenting ourselves.
