Dear Abraham Rodriguez:

To let your emotions flow, to accept and let them be, means to allow yourself to be sad, let’s say but to not catastrophize it in ways of thinking: this sadness will never pass; it is going to get worse. What am I going to do? I can’t handle it, etc. You let yourself be sad but know you can endure it, you can survive it. You know that the feeling will pass, change, like the weather, that you will feel better.

I suppose letting your feelings flow means to let yourself feel uncomfortable feelings without scaring yourself and instead, feeling confident that you can endure it; that the feeling will not kill you. Knowing you survived distress before and you can survive it again. You take deep breaths, relax best you can, calm yourself, talk to yourself like you were a child that needs comfort.

anita