By Karen Gosling
I have always understood my feelings and articulated them well. As young as 14-years of age, I remember my mother telling me to “stop analyzing everything”. I was constantly thinking, interpreting, discussing or journaling the things that I felt.
I am a sensitive person with an avoidant emotional style. My parents never displayed conflict. And the message my siblings and I consistently heard was, “If you haven’t got anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.” My nature and conditioning resulted in an innate and learned disability of not knowing how to behave in a conflict situation. The first person in my life to yell at me was my husband, Mike!
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