Unpacking Emotional Baggage is Hard Work!

Unpacking emotional baggage is hard work. We all have it, some of us have substantial baggage carts and some a little smaller, but we all have a cart! I feel that we get to a space in our life where the cart is just too full; we can’t fit anything else on it. We must unpack some of the stuff that no longer needs to take up space in our life.

We need to let the bad stuff float away to allow for all the good coming to you.

How did I start?

Well, I got to a place in my life where I didn’t feel great. I should have, but I didn’t. I needed some things to change. I found that some of the emotions from my childhood would bubble up to the surface and still have a significant effect on me. Why?

I would ask that all the time. I’d look at my life and see that I had it pretty good. How was it that I allowed all of these emotions and bad memories to rule my life?

Because I had never taken the time to honour that they helped shape me into the person I am and then set them free.

Set them Free!

I never let the emotions know I didn’t need them to hang on anymore. They could jump off the cart, and I would be ok. They were acting as dead weight and weighting down my cart so that I couldn’t move forward. The fact that I could function at the level I was, with all that baggage I was lugging around, was pretty remarkable. I still have to give myself credit for where I was, but knowing I needed to let go and move forward was a giant step ahead.

Even the littlest amount of emotion stored in our bodies can wreak havoc. I had to let go of a lot of emotions from my past, hurt feelings from when I was a teen, feelings of abandonment, feelings of not being included, just to name a few. It’s impressive my cart was moving at all over the years!

I started by journaling.

I would sit down and just start to write down whatever came to mind. It would almost feel like I was in a trans, and the writing was my soul taking over, and my body was on autopilot. I just knew that I needed to release. Once I started writing, the luggage cart felt a little lighter.

Again, I had a long and heavy luggage cart. I knew that the journaling wasn’t going to be enough.

Secondly, I started to meditate. I looked on YouTube for guided meditations and used them to help me begin.

Eventually, I was able to meditate on my own. If you haven’t meditated before and would like to learn, let me know, I can help you out.

Meditation has been life-changing for me. I can just let my mind wander and find clarity for the challenging and straightforward happenings in my life. I can understand why some emotions are sticking around and what they teach me.

All in all, I have been able to release quite a bit of my emotional baggage. By allowing myself to let go, I have grown by leaps and bounds. It’s an excellent feeling. I enjoy journaling after my meditations; it seems to flow for me.

It didn’t come easy off the start, and it has taken many months to get to where I am now. There were definitely ups and downs along the way. Through the ups and downs, I have been able to look back and see the person who chose to make a change and the person I am today is the result. That makes me happy.

It has been worth all the tears shed to get to this happy place in my life.

If you want to start unpacking, I’d love to help you. I feel a bit like the old Rescue Heros, “No One gets left behind!” I should add on to that quote with, “Except the unwanted emotional baggage!”

Here’s to letting go!

You can follow along with me on my Instagram page @astepaheadhealing to see the different ways I can help.