Elisabeth Rengel - Dialog

I could not agree more with this post.

Silvia Rubalcaba on Instagram: "Raise your hand if you’re an overthinker 🙋🏻‍♀️ Yep, it’s another trauma response. You started doing it to try to give yourself a sense of safety, but it can create the opposite feeling in your body. Do 382K Likes, 6,072 Comments - Silvia Rubalcaba () on Instagram: "Raise your hand if you’re an overthinker 🙋🏻‍♀️ Yep, it’s another trauma response..."

The most important message in this for me is: I am not stuck with the consequences of an imperfect choice I might have made but can act accordingly in the present. It is for me about trusting my ability to re-act.

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” — Erich Fromm

This is a foundational existential reality. Most of life requires us to make choices and move on without all the information you might optimally want, and frequently with an array of imperfect choices.

This quote also helps clarify the inevitability of existential anxiety when we have to make meaning with uncertain consequences.

As a practitioner and individual I appreciate the Gestalt principle of starting to work from WHERE YOU ARE IN YOUR LIFE rather than
WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE.