Gemma Spake

We are all feeling beings who think second, in that order.

Nobody is just not an emotions person.

Something or someone has taught you that you're not.

But underneath it all is like this deep, deep pool of feeling that will let you connect with so much more that life has to offer, even if it's hard at first.

Sometimes the aim isn't to be constantly emotionally calm and balanced and in check.

We want to feel intense grief.

We want to feel rage when we witness injustice.

We want to feel sadness when we witness rejection.

your body knows what's going on and sometimes true emotional regulation is just being able to feel that and sit with it and letting a whole range of emotions in so you have emo diversity and letting that simply remind you like oh my god this is evidence that i'm alive and i'm here and life hurts sometimes but sometimes it also feels absolutely amazing

And I cannot have one of those things without the other.

I just think we're not aiming for perfection in our emotional processing.

Again, we're aiming for that emo diversity.

Can I look at my life and see that I'm feeling things deeply from all angles?

Because if you

It's just like one of the crappiest things about being human.

There is nobody who feels absolutely happy all the time.

And I often think that the people who are able to experience the deepest, most vibrant feelings of joy and feelings of elation and just like friendship and kinship and greatness are the ones who've also really been at the other end of the spectrum.

right?

Who've really been down in the dumps.

Again, this is what we're talking about right now.