Some days I just wish people, tv, Facebook, self-help books and every magazine I see would just stop telling me to BE HAPPY! You know, I like being happy as much as the next person, I really do BUT sometimes, honestly, sometimes I want to feel OK being unhappy.  In fact, just this past Saturday, I woke up feeling in a bit of a funk and I decided to lean into it.  I put on a movie I knew was going to make me cry and I went from there. I watched, I cried, I journaled, I cried,   I had some friends over for dinner, I cried. And you know what, I liked it. I liked leaning into my sadness, embracing it, letting it flow, letting loose something that clearly wanted to be released.

Did I feel better?  Not so much that day, my nose with a little sore from blowing and my eyes burned a bit from so many tears but the next day I felt a little lighter, used fewer tissues and breathed easier.

Sounds like a good day to me.