Comments on: 3 Lessons of Confession–Lead a Happier & More Productive Life

By: Lauren at Faith Fuel

Lauren at Faith Fuel — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:50:16 +0000

I loved this. My motto has always been to “call a spade a spade” but beyond having a motto, or holding certain values, there is always this undertow that we can easily get sucked into, and that’s how we get sucked back into old mental habits and patterns.We need voices, like yours, that remind us to identify what is really bothering us, what is really eating away at us–what has caused us to lose steam?? Then comes the good stuff: liberation, revelation….the light bulb goes on and we take off down the runway. We learn to move onward.

Thanks for telling it straight!

By: Jo Tracey

Jo Tracey — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:10:37 +0000

This is an inspiring post…& arrived in my inbox on the exact day that it needed to.

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Interesting blog posts… | Sarah Madison Fiction — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:16:24 +0000

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By: kbowenwriter

kbowenwriter — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:49:41 +0000

In reply to Piper Bayard. I think you need a pet rock. It will always be there for you ;)

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:48:05 +0000

Great post, Kristen. Thanks for being so honest about your own journey. Hearing other people admit to negative feelings makes it easier to be honest with myself about mine.

I love the consistent way you don’t just identify problems, you give tools with which to turn those problems into positives. Thanks for the time and effort you put into your work.

By: Piper Bayard

Piper Bayard — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:45:21 +0000

In reply to Kait Nolan. Yep. Thanks for naming it. I resent the intrusions when I'm working. I resent people needing me. But at the same time, those people are the most important part of my life. I don't want them to go away mad, I just want them to go away, and I want them to be there every time I take a break. Lol. How selfish is that? I'll start looking at the positive. Great idea.

By: Author Kristen Lamb

Author Kristen Lamb — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:46:20 +0000

In reply to Matt. Yes, you are dead-on correct. We do have an opportunity to use our writing to explore our emotions and better name them. Thanks for a great observation :D.

By: Joanna Aislinn

Joanna Aislinn — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:35:34 +0000

All your blogs are excellent, Kristin, but this one was awesome. Mental wellness is so tremendously underrated and impacts us every day whether we realize it or not. One is expected to paste on that smile and carry on no matter what the issue. (Part of my occupational therapy training was in the area of mental health–still strikes me how very sick those patients were, despite lack of ‘physical’ signs more common to physical illnesses/conditions. Makes it that much harder to get by when the world figures one can just ‘get over it’ and move on.)

I loved ‘naming the emotion’ specifically-what a difference it makes when one can identify a given emotion then start piecing out the return to balance from there.

Thank you for sharing this and to everyone who comments. Wish I could get through every single response for every one of your posts. So much is available here to those who open themselves to learn.

Joanna Aislinn
Dream. Believe. Strive. Achieve!
NO MATTER WHY
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By: kimboosan

kimboosan — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:05:34 +0000

There is so much here I identify with – it took a long time for me to confront my grief issues for what they were, and naming the real problem was a watershed moment for me. A moment that lasted about two years, admittedly, but it was the key to completely remaking (rediscovering) my life.

I’m in grad school, newly divorced, selling my writing and blogging — things are rough, because I’ve been unemployed for nearly a year now, and money isn’t coming in much from anywhere. But you are right, the brain is a powerful thing, and I need to remember to confess my future every day, not only to others but too myself. Thanks so much for this wonderful, insightful, and important post.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:45:23 +0000

Hi: I liked reading this a lot, but I wonder if ‘naming’ emotion is entirely sufficient in confronting problems. These words we use for emotion, from love to heart-brokenness are so – I don’t know – myopic in communicating those emotions. The word is so much smaller in more insignificant than the feeling. That’s why we write, isn’t it? To surround these forces with cyclones of words in an effort to contain and describe them.