Finding a Sense of Wholeness
Key points
We all want to be happy, so why do we sometimes suddenly feel bad about feeling good?
To make it extra confusing, moving from happy to gloomy can happen in milliseconds.
The origin story of this dynamic shift generally resides in childhood.
This emotional dive from feeling good to feeling down is a two-step dance that can happen in milliseconds. It’s as though in one moment there’s a feeling of healthy pride. In the next moment, that pride is entangled in a death roll with dark thoughts or feelings of self-loathing, self-doubt, or of being fundamentally undeserving of good things.
