Hey anita- Forgive me as I have an analytical, blank-and-white mind, so I figure there has to be some methodical approach or solution. I’m beginning to realize that life is not so cut-and-dry.

Anyway (I’ll use exercise/body-parts in place of emotions as an analogy to maybe reword my thoughts), in order to not over-whelm ourselves, I was thinking it might be best to focus on something which we know we need work on, like abs. And to focus our energies on that, not neglecting, but brushing off the other stuff (like biceps or chest) until we feel we’ve got our ab work under control. Then we can continue with the abs, and add something else, like biceps, to snowball our progress on recognizing what’s working for us and what isn’t.

Hmmmm…this is difficult to explain. I’m going to look a little more into mindfulness, and maybe that’ll help clarify your comments a little more.

Howdy Squidgirl – I’d definitely be interested to know more. Getting things down on paper seems to be something I turn to a lot, so having a framework (analytical!!) to guide that practice seems like a great idea!