A Monthly Emotional Check-in for All Your Feelings
Many of us are just too busy to feel. There’s so much we have to do or be right now that just getting to our emotional life can feel hard. But our feelings are there anyway, coming out in unexpected ways.
Our Friday Feelings Club gives you the space and time to check-in with what you’re feeling. In this low-key lunchtime gathering, we’ll write and talk and get our feelings out.
You’ll get gentle prompts, some mood-based guidance, and the space to better understand whatever’s going on inside (no writing skills required).
It’s part feelings club, part creative session.
A Holidays Edition
You're probably feeling the pressure right now to get your emotional life all wrapped up for Christmas: to be happy, joyful, merry, and bright. But what if you’re also aware of some feelings of say frustration, insecurity or anxiety? What do you do with them right now? Pack them away until the New Year?
In this month’s Friday Feelings Club we’re going to look at all the emotions that can come up over the Holiday Season and why that’s ok. It really is.
We often deny the feelings we think of as ‘negative’ this time of year, like they’ll wreck everything if we allow them to show up, or that we’ll be embarrassed about being seen as ‘emotional’ and making a fuss.
We believe that certain feelings have no place during the festive season. It’s like we’re holding our breath, emotionally, until we’re through it, and have the time, often alone, to feel all the things we’ve been trying not to feel.
But somehow those feelings come out anyway, don’t they?
When you snap when someone asks for another ice-cube and everything you’ve been disappointed about comes out in that very moment.
When you’re teenager tells you he needs a Secret Santa for school today when he’s about to leave the house, and you find yourself panic buying your own cupboards, heart racing, mind befuddled, lip wobbling.
When you reach for a cute greeting card or browse a gift catalogue and stumble on something that mentions a mum or a dad, and you crumble into grief.
Even when Emma Thompson opens a present and receives a CD and not a necklace and your heart breaks a little for all the moments that weren’t what you thought they would be.
Many of us can struggle with having a healthy relationship with our emotions at any time of year, but this can particularly be the case in the Festive Season when our emotional life is expected to get really narrow even though our days might have just got more complicated.
There’s so much expected of us right now, so many different ways to show up and be, before even adding in another layer for how we should feel. So give yourself some grace, compassion and acceptance this Festive Season as you feel what you feel.
Fridays, Monthly, at 12 noon
Online — come as you are, sandwich optional
Free — Just subscribe to our Substack to get the Zoom invitation