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Your emotions are a lot like a tangled ball of yarn 

When you ignore them, the knots tighten. Stress wraps around sadness, anxiety weaves into guilt , and the harder you pull, the messier it gets.

Each colour in that tangle is a different feeling. And here’s the thing: they don’t arrive one by one. You can feel pride and fear. Joy and grief. They can sit side by side in the same moment, and that’s completely normal.

Untangling starts with one small loop … one breath, one pause, one name.
When you name a feeling, you calm your brain’s fire alarm  so you can think clearly and respond instead of react.

Naming doesn’t erase emotions, it organises them. Now you’ve got threads you can actually work with, weaving even the hard colours into the bigger picture of your life. That’s what makes your tapestry rich and real.

Try this today: Next time your emotions feel like a knotted mess, don’t pull harder.
Find one thread. Name it. Start there.