Pressure Cooker

Have you ever heard anyone describe a person as a pressure cooker?  Do you know how a pressure cooker works?  Water turns into steam, and if you don’t let the pressure cooker ‘vent’ as it is heating up, it will explode!  People do work the same way.  We have internal pressure that builds up, and if we don’t ‘vent’ our internal pressure will make up blow up too!  People ‘blow up’ in a number of different ways; health problems, panic attacks, isolating themselves, angry outbursts, etc.  But the fact remains……we WILL inevitably blow up if we don’t ‘vent!’  So, how do we know if we are about to blow?  Well, look at your life…..do you feel calm, balanced, or out of balance and on edge most or all of the time?  How do you vent?  There are a million
ways, and it is an individual process, but some ways I have used and had others tell me that works are physical exercise, screaming into a pillow, crying, journaling, talking to a trusted friend, see a counselor, etc.  Our feelings (unexpressed) are what make our internal pressure build.  We HAVE to release them somehow!  So please, please, find a way to vent!  Don’t let yourself ‘explode’ from unresolved, unexpressed feelings!
Robyn