Writing Went From Sacred to Scared
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
2y ago
It’s been hard to return to my blog, and I am only now giving myself space to ask why.   I have over-blamed busyness.   I have used the side effects of Covid-19 as an excuse.   I used my go-to complaint of never having time with the kids being home. I decorated and organized every inch of my house telling myself that I’ll write right after this very-important-mission-critical closet organization project is completed. They have all been comfortable distractions.   Truth is, I love to write.  Why have I slowed it down? Yes, things got busy. Yes ..read more
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Being Kind To Yourself When Your World Feels Upside Down
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
4y ago
While standing in a yoga class, the instructor tells us to stretch down to the floor and extend our arms and head down to the ground. We take a deep breath inhale, and as we exhale into the stretch, she says, “Now be kind to yourself, for some of you, this is the first time you’ve been inverted today.” And I exclaim a quiet “yes” in my mind! I stretch with my head upside down while my therapist brain lingered deep in agreement with her words. We all need to “be kind to ourselves”. That whatever crazy, upside down, and inverted situations you are going through today, your emotions can feel upsi ..read more
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It is (NOT) Well With My Soul
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
4y ago
“It is (NOT) well with my soul.” Ever been there? Been in the middle of a situation where everyone is singing praises and your vulnerability with God screams “I’m not okay”, “This is not okay”, “Nothing about ___________ (<fill in the blank) is well with my soul”. We love to hear people share stories of purpose from pain, but here’s the gray area in their story…they said those lines too. They had moments where they wanted to run from purpose, where their story felt anything but beautiful, and brokenness felt like their identity and made it hard to sing “It is well with my soul”. So what exa ..read more
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Living through a Scary Movie called Trauma
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
Trauma…. It’s a word that feels like we’re about to watch a scary movie, just minus the popcorn, and minus the choosing that this movie is now a part of your life. It’s just a scary movie. One you’re not excited about. At. All. The more I help clients in psychotherapy, the more I’ve come to realize how common it is for us all to have “scary movie” experiences we’ve lived through and struggle to talk about. Trauma. So what’s the antidote? My answer….Healing. If Trauma = Hurt (and most of you have learned by now that I’m pretty passionate that Hurt needs Healing) then Trauma would also need Heal ..read more
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The POWER Within
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
You are filled with POWER! More power than you understand. More potential than that beautiful mind can fathom. Your brain is filled with the inner workings of a grand design, and an even grander designer. This vast potential for living and understanding all lies within YOU. And yet, you will instead, spend most of your life trying to obtain a worldly sense of power, without fully tapping into this magnificent POWER that lies within the complexities of your skeletal skull. Tap into that POWER today. A power that needs no down payment, no monthly fees, and no contracts to get started. It is with ..read more
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Emotional Triggers
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
We ALL have triggers! Triggers we already know about, and some triggers we haven’t yet discovered. . Let me answer a few questions… • “So, what is it?” I define an emotional trigger as a particular sensitivity your body has to a certain stimulus. • “Where do they come from?” They can come from our past experiences or our learned behaviors. • “Is something wrong with me for having a trigger?” Let me answer that with this…if you had a gluten sensitivity, I wouldn’t say something was wrong with you, so why jump to that conclusion for an emotional sensitivity? Nothing is wrong with you, you just n ..read more
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Just Grieve Over It
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
Some of you need permission to do this. You might have been told: “Just get over it”. Can I give you permission to “Just Grieve over it”? Allow the areas of hurt, of trauma, of pain, of loss, of sadness, to fully experience grief. Every layer of grief, to “Just Grieve over it”. Grieve over the situation you lost. Grieve over the friendships that are gone. Grieve over the heart that’s been broken. Grieve over the childhood you wish was different. Grieve over the career that didn’t pan out the way you thought. Grieve over the decisions you regret never making. Grieve even over the decisions you ..read more
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Running Away, and then Running Back Home
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
When my eyes begin to flood I often find myself throwing on a blanket full of workout clothes, some earbuds tight and loud in my ears, and some tennis shoes as tight as I can tie them. And then I run. I cry, and I sweat, and I run. Not because I’m super healthy and it’s good for you. I’m literally trying to run away. I want to be away from it all, as if my worries can’t catch my feet. It has to be far. Far away, so three miles ain’t gonna cut it. I run. And I run. And I try to find the perfect song to match my emotions, and I run. Then I get exhausted. The adrenaline wears off, my legs are hur ..read more
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The Body Never Forgets #mentalhealthawareness
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
It’s true that the body never forgets.  Even those memories you just push and push and push and push down, the body just doesn’t forget.  This week has given me my own example of watching my body feel what my brain just wants to go away. I’ve been off all week. Something just hasn’t felt right. So my counselor brain begins to diagnose herself and go through my internal list: What emotions are you noticing within yourself? Sadness, wanting to be isolated from others, loneliness, tired. How often have you been feeling this way? Just this past week, a sudden shift from last week. Has anything hap ..read more
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Relentless pursuit in Marriage
Emily Funderburk
by emilyrosefunderburk
5y ago
My friend Sandra Weber is RELENTLESS! She is the host of The Relentless Podcast where she digs deep into helping her listeners learn more about being Relentless in their Physical, Mental, and Emotional Health. As a provider in Integrative Bodywork she sees first hand how the physical body and emotional health are interconnected. I help people with emotional health and she works on the physical, so when she invited me on her podcast for a REAL conversation about the stigma of counseling, the relational struggles in marriage, and how she notices emotional issues putting strain on her clients phy ..read more
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