30. What Oprah and a NASTY Dog Bite Taught Me About Controlling My Emotions and Trauma

The Mentally ill Mentor · Jun 21, 2021 · 30m

If your experience with controlling your emotions has been anything like mine, I have often asked myself: "What the heck is wrong with me?"Observing my own emotions, and recognizing they are often very different and MUCH stronger than those of "normal people", has sometimes caused me to feel broken.But after listening to Oprah talk about trauma (the subject of her new book), I now understand that a much better question to ask when it comes to troubling emotions is: "What happened to me?"Instead of feeling broken or inferior, this question helps us understand that the "abnormal" emotions which…