Emotional Support 24/7 - Whenever You Need It - Your Emotional Nutrients by Pamela LevinDid you know that all these symptoms can actually have one basic cause? They are all inevitable results of being emotionally hungry! Just as you would feel shaky, headachy, angry, cloudy-headed or irritable if you were physically hungry… When you are emotionally hungry you experience emotional symptoms such as stress, anxiety, fear, shame, depression, insecurity, and other unpleasant feelings. In contrast, when you are emotionally full, you feel refreshed, like you’ve just had a walk in a warm spring rain, a restorative sleep, a great laugh or the kiss of the sun on your cheek. You feel secure, relaxed, stable, confident. Maybe you’ve never thought about it this way before, but it’s true:

When you’re feeling bad, it could just be that you’re starving for the emotional nutrition you need.

Just as we all need nutritious, healthy food every day, so we need good emotional nutrition every day.

And, just as there are times when physical nutrition is especially important—during pregnancy or illness, for instance—so there are times when we especially need emotional nourishment.

Any of the above conditions can throw you into emotional starvation. . . unless you know how to feed yourself the emotional nutrients™ that restore your sense of calm and well-being.

Despite the fact that emotional nutrition is just as important as physical nutrition, few of us are ever taught how to feed ourselves emotionally.

Perhaps you try to ignore your emotions as you instead ________________ (fill in the blank: drink alcohol, smoke tobacco or marijuana, shop, work longer hours, escape into TV, the internet or movies, read romances, or …).

In fact, 95% of our emotional lives are unconscious and drive us to do things we don’t want to do or prevent us from doing things we want to do!

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