I Love That You’re Emotional

by Wendy K Laidlaw, Heal Endometriosis Naturally

I remember the first time I heard my children say that phrase to me. “Mum, I love that you’re so emotional!”.

It was the most refreshing and validating phrase I had ever heard about myself.

Oh, to be finally accepted for who I was.

Who I am.

“My name is Wendy, and I am an emotional being”.

I am a fully-fledged, happy, emotional and sensitive woman.

I always have been deep down.

And I have finally accepted that I will always be.

Yet, I spent decades feeling ashamed and in denial about it myself, my feelings and my emotions.

Emotions.

Oh yes!

Those darn Emotions.

I used to refer to them as if they were this strange thing that bubbled up inside me, that I tried in vain to run away…