How to apply emotional first aid

For myself emotional hygiene refers to how we deal with emotional wounds in our lives. These could be various wounds from bullying, breakups or someone closing the elevator on you knowing you were trying to catch it. 

In the session we cover emotional first aid - an analogy aligned with how we deal with physical wounds. A transferable concept I thought that could help to showcase the lack of self care we apply to our emotional wounds.

When you apply that logic it makes you think about all those situations that hurt you and the amount of scars and damage you have endured during the course of your life. If that doesn’t scare you then we have a lot more work to do - as they say acceptance is the first step.

Personally I grew up in a household where emotions didn’t matter as much as physical wounds. The concept of the emotional self and mental state were not clearly defined. Instead there were layers of formalities and etiquette.

Getting back to the concept of first aid - emotional first aid is two fold 1. To help you recover and 2. To ensure you don’t bleed or spread your germs on to someone else.

This takes me to the saying “hurt people, hurt, people” - when you aren’t healed you will continue to repeat cycles until you heal the original wound.

Can you think of a wound that you’re still carrying?