emotions - by jenna beth

Virgo Season

Jenna August 22, 2021 2 Comments

Virgo season runs from August 23 to September 22, and is ruled by Mercury. You know? The planet that when it goes into retrograde the electronics start acting all wonky.

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#anxiety #astrology #emotions #gods and goddesses #journal #lessons learned #music #playlist #runes #spotify #tarot #therapy #virgo

Jenna, You Should…

Jenna August 10, 2021 No Comments

Do this. Do that. Go left. Turn right. Fuuuuuuuuck. Can I ever do anything right? According to everyone else, no. Isn’t that what we are taught growing up? To be

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#emotional intelligence #emotions #lessons learned

Back to the Basics

Jenna August 6, 2021 No Comments

I’m sad. I’ve been that way for a bit now. I can see it in the pictures that I take. I am smiling, but it doesn’t quite reach my eyes.

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#anxiety #emotions #inner child #journal #lessons learned #my morning pages #therapy

Distress Tolerance

Jenna June 26, 2021 No Comments

Life isn’t fair. This one took me years to swallow. (Hello privilege!) I fought pretty hard to hide from it though. I wanted to keep it all inside. The unspoken

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#dbt #distress tolerance #emotions #mindfulness #Tara Brach

Mindfulness

Jenna May 31, 2021 No Comments

Ah the vaguest word in the dictionary these days! Except maybe for vulnerability or authenticity. The whole concept of mindfulness has evaded me for years, or rather I was avoiding

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Emotional Garbage Can

Jenna May 24, 2021 No Comments

Do you ever wonder about why Oscar the Grouch is so gosh darn grouchy? It’s like he spews anger and hate no matter what is happening around him. That’s what

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#dbt #emotional intelligence #emotions #failing forward #lessons learned #therapy

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Jenna 1 Comment

I was standing in the back of the kitchen screaming in complete tunnel vision mode. I knew logically that this was a terrible idea, and that I should probably stop.

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Turtle Shell

Jenna April 28, 2021 No Comments

There is this scene in the movie Brick (one of my all time favorite movies, by the way) where Brendan walks into the room and Laura is reciting poetry while

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#anxiety #courage #emotions #journal

How Are You Feeling Today?

Jenna April 19, 2021 No Comments

As I have gone through the different iterations of these words on a page, I feel like I have evolved along with them in some ways. As the pages become,

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#emotional intelligence #emotions #feelings

The New Scarlet Letter

Jenna February 22, 2021 No Comments

I wanted to belong so badly that I lost myself. That’s what shame really does to a person. It coerces us to conform, which in turn causes us to forget

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#anxiety #emotions #journal #shame #therapy

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