Parvati Magazine May 2014 - Feeling Alive | Page 28

COMMUNITY

CLARA HUGHES RIDES
FOR “LET’S TALK”

When we are depressed, we feel sad and heavy. When we are despaired, we feel alone
and disconnected. In darker emotional states, we can feel unable to deal with our lives,
overwhelmed sometimes by even the smallest things, like going outside to collect the mail .
Out of habit and sometimes due to socialization, we try to push our feelings away. We don’t
like them. We may feel that they betray our image of ourselves. We may feel too exposed
and out of control. We may feel that we will not be loved if we show our true colours. We
don’t want to talk about the painful stuff, the things that hurt. We don’t know how to get out
of the heaviness, the feeling of burden, the feeling of no hope and being at a dead end.