Glitter Bombs

Are emotions getting the better of you? Me too sometimes. In fact, this week I suffered a full blown glitter bomb.

Maybe you’ve had one recently. Emotions building up and tumbling over. Tears and sadness and frustration overload your being and it all comes out. So awful in the moment, but afterwards our souls somehow feel a little bit lighter. I think that is very telling.

Coaches know better than anyone that external things cannot create our emotions, only the thoughts we have about what is happening. But sometimes, you just can’t process that quickly. Another coach told me that this is what the author Lisa Damour calls a glitter bomb.

Just like a snow globe, all of the glitter needs to spin and swirl and slowly settle before we are ready to work on new thoughts. Sometimes we need and want to feel it all out loud. I thought that was such a wonderful analogy.

Then, when the swirling is over and we’re ready to move on, we can find a thought that makes it all more neutral. That allows us to cope.That doesn’t mean you forget the hurt. It means, out of love and respect for yourself, you find a perspective that allows you to view the scenario in a way that doesn’t bring agony. And you decide if there are boundaries needed for you to remain safe going forward.

The goodness in painful things is that it gives us so much compassion for others. If you’ve got a glitter bomb exploding in your own life, I know how you feel. And now that MY glitter has found it’s resting place (once again), I’d love to help.