Okay to Talk About It
Our focus this week — Aug 20-26: “Colors”
Today’s MotD: Okay to Talk About It. We are encouraged to talk about our more difficult emotions to someone whom we care about and trust. Holding these emotions in, stuffing, ignoring, or numbing out on them, creates a situation where we feel stuck in these very same emotions.
Being able to talk about them frees them from whatever loop they’re in allowing them to be felt, expressed, and lightened—giving us a way to be free from being stuck in them, to move on to let other feelings to come through.
I admit, this is a more challenging topic for me. Most of my younger life, it wasn’t safe to express almost any emotion (positive to negative). We were meant to be seen and not heard. It wasn’t until I started therapy in my late 20s that I felt safe enough to crack open the heavy door to my industrial-sized vault of emotions, where I could I could finally air them out, and allow myself to feel them.
I still find it challenging and thankfully I’m blessed with a handful of caring people in my life who make it safe for me to talk about the feelings I’m feeling.
How about you ? Do you hold back on sharing your more difficult emotions ? Do you have someone you can share these emotions with ? Can you allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to share some of them ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 