IBS Lifestyle » emotions http://ibslifestyle.com Taking the Stress Out of IBS Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:42:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 When Your Thoughts Go Wild http://ibslifestyle.com/when-your-thoughts-go-wild/ http://ibslifestyle.com/when-your-thoughts-go-wild/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:05:06 +0000 http://ibslifestyle.com/?p=514 Here’s just a few thoughts I have heard from my clients this week: I hate my job and it is ruining my life.

I can’t have any fun unless I am pain free.

I am worthless because I haven’t written a best selling novel.

I can’t be happy unless… insert any situation here. These thoughts can drive you crazy, if you let them. I like to call this thoughts gone wild syndrome. It starts with one self-defeating thought and then it turns into mind swirl so huge that you feel depressed in about 5 minutes because you’ve already created a full-blown personal catastrophe. At that [...]

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]]> http://ibslifestyle.com/when-your-thoughts-go-wild/feed/ 3 Need Clarity? Start Complaining http://ibslifestyle.com/need-clarity-start-complaining/ http://ibslifestyle.com/need-clarity-start-complaining/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:03:07 +0000 http://ibslifestyle.com/?p=503 “So it’s okay to be unhappy?” a client recently asked me. Yes, yes, and completely unrealistic, I thought. Law of attraction is a great tool, but it requires you to be real about your emotions. Sadly too many of us believe that we have to be solely focused on being nice, responsible, and doing the right thing. In the process we ignore our true feelings. And not only do we ignore them, when they resurface we dismiss the emotions completely as if it’s a bad germ we’re afraid to catch. The problem with that kind of thinking is it leads [...]

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