Between Stimulus and Response

    "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl

Naming emotional elephants. I encourage you to pause and name your emotional elephants.  Not someone else's, not what you want yours to be, but what it is.  Pause long enough to name your emotional elephants.  Fear, frustration, discouragement, sadness, isolation, pride, arrogance, anger, annoyance, guilt, apathy, disappointment, contempt, embarrassment, shame....

It is only after we name them can we acknowledge them and thus begin to address them.  Emotions in and of themselves are not right or wrong.  It is what we do with them in the space between stimulus and response that matters.