Don’t Let Your Emotions Get The Best Of You
(I probably should have done a video about this, but since I’ve already created one cheesy video today I decided to just write about it.)
Today has been a doozy of a day. It started out pretty good. But then something happened around lunch time that threw me for a loop.
I won’t go into details, but let’s just say that someone very close to me did something that totally flabbergasted me. I cried. I called a friend and cried on her shoulder. I just couldn’t believe what had happened.
The first thing I wanted to do was run to the kitchen, grab some junk food and munch down. (Of course, I don’t have junk food in the house any more, but that’s where my brain was at that moment–eating JUNK.)
Instead of letting my emotions carry me into an emotional food binge, I stepped outside and sat on my front porch swing for a bit. While I was outside, I made a conscious decision within myself that I would not allow this situation to control me.
I came back inside, grabbed a bottle of water, then went to my room, shut the door, and prayed for a while. When I was done, I went back to my work and put everything else out of my mind.
Doing this created a mental and physical domino effect for me:
- I forced myself to step out of the situation, rather than sitting in it and feeling sorry for myself.
- I determined that I would be the better person. By making this decision, I immediately felt better about myself. It was like I shoved away some invisible force that was nagging at me to eat my way out of it.
- I asked God to forgive those that wronged me; to help me to forgive them as well and love them despite it.
- Most importantly, I chose to love myself through the sadness by not eating. Those of you who are emotional eaters can understand what a huge accomplishment this is for me. I didn’t gorge on unhealthy food. I didn’t stuff down all the emotions. I shared my pain, then released it and decided to move on.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this was easy for me. It wasn’t. But I’m very proud of myself for pulling myself up and out of it without caving into an emotional food binge.
I am worth it.
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