Feeling Terri-cited!

December 3, 2021

When I asked a dear friend and client, how she felt about starting her new job, she said,

“Terrified and excited. Terri-cited?”

Talk about perfectly encapsulating a familiar sensation.

In the Yaysayers, the group coaching community I lead, we recently discussed how multi-faceted our emotions can be.

One Yaysayer said she felt “relieved and devastated” after the New Orleans Mayor announced Mardi Gras parades were cancelled this year.

As a public health expert she knew it was the right call, but as a self-described “Mardi Gras and costuming freak” she was heartbroken.

A Yaysayer from New York described a similar feeling when Mayor de Blasio cancelled the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

We can hold a multitude of concurrent, sometimes contradictory emotions. It’s powerful to name each of them, especially when they seem in conflict.

You’re not weird or broken when your emotions don’t seem to match up. Everything you’re feeling is perfectly normal.

We’re in this together.

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