Self-Awareness: Identifying Internal Weather Patterns

Observe your emotional states non-judgmentally

Observing our feelings in a non-judgmental way can create space for kindness. Many of us approach our emotions with criticism or judgment. Even as a therapist, I still have moments when I reject my emotional state or attach moral value to it, telling myself things like, “I’m a bad person for feeling upset about ___.”

But emotions are much like the weathe…