Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this “page cups feelings” thing, and I gotta say, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster. I started out super optimistic, you know? Like, “Yeah, I’m gonna organize all my thoughts and emotions!”
Getting Started
First, I grabbed a bunch of paper cups. Just regular ones from the grocery store, nothing fancy. Then I found some markers – different colors, because, why not? It seemed important at the time.
The Process
- I started writing down feelings on the cups. Just whatever popped into my head. “Anxious,” “Happy,” “Frustrated,” you name it.
- Then, I tried to categorize them. Like, put all the “negative” feelings together and the “positive” ones in another group. This got messy fast.
- I tried to arrange them on a page. This was supposed to be the “page” part of “page cups feelings.” I thought maybe I could make some kind of visual representation of my emotional state.
- The more often, I write the same feelings, I use another new cup to stack them.
The Struggle is Real
Honestly, it got pretty overwhelming. There were cups everywhere! And some of the feelings were, like, really hard to define. Is “meh” a feeling? I wrote it down anyway. After staring at a pile of cups with words scribbled on them, I felt…more confused than when I started and realized that the number of cups that could be stacked would help me.
A-ha! Moment
But then, I had a little bit of a breakthrough. I realized it wasn’t about making a perfect chart or anything. It was more about just…acknowledging the feelings. Actually writing the stack of cups number of each feeling, and it was kind of freeing.
Like, “Okay, I’m feeling this, and it’s okay to feel this.”
Final Thoughts
So, yeah, “page cups feelings.” It’s not a perfect system, and I probably won’t be showing it to any therapists anytime soon.
But it helped me get a little more in touch with what’s going on inside my head, and the stack of cups I have now do really help to show my feelings. And that’s worth something, right?
