From the Amateur Wannabe Therapist Desk of Kristen Lopez

Feelings are for feeling. They communicate messages and conclusions that have been made with whatever information has previously been programmed by a variety of different sources, no matter how contradictory those sources are with one another. Feelings are real and valid, they should be acknowledged and valued, but they do NOT define who you are. Your identity should not be based upon your feelings or emotions. They run on previously programmed/downloaded information, regardless of whether or not that information had errors or faulty reasonings based on the principles of this world. They do not concern themselves with truth, they just put two and two together and come up with the feeling based on whatever operating system has been installed, since infancy.

Feel your feelings, they are important, but make the ever so critical distinction..you are NOT your feelings.