Principle 6 states: All individuals have a right and a responsibility to learn to express their feelings appropriately. Feelings allow us to connect to our internal guidance system.

Our society doesn't do well with feelings. It's actually a sign of an insecure attachment and by the numbers, we have a lot of insecure attachment in our culture. What happens when children express their feelings? What happened when you were growing up and you expressed your feelings?

When I became a parent, I discovered that I really had no idea how to deal with my own feelings, let alone someone else's feelings. Parenting made that super apparent for me. My oldest son had a lot of big feelings and that was challenging for me.

One of the ways we can start to shift the way we look at feelings is to recognize that it's part of being human, it is the way we spill our hurts, it doesn't have to be logical, and when we can connect in this emotional space, it is deeply healing to all.

But it isn't easy, especially if you haven't experienced it much in your own life.

This month, we'll be exploring connecting with our own feelings and the lessons we learned about our own feelings, regulation of our feelings, what healthy expression of feelings looks like, and supporting our children's feelings, including boundaries around the expression of feelings.

If you have questions or things you'd like me to cover, please let me know by replying to the member email or posting in the Facebook group. I want to make sure you can actually apply the information to your family (or what's the point?!). Thanks for being here!