Earlier this week Salt Water Mum wrote a blog which touched on disappointment. I’d guess that for those of us who struggle with keeping our mood on a flat line, disappointment might be a tough pill to swallow. So what can we do?

I’m a bit of a fan of keeping things until they’re ready to go. I’m not a speedy Gonzales whether it’s change or disappointment, or even booking something I fancy. For me, things have to align to be let go. How do we align to be able to let go of disappointment?

One way is by bringing it in. Pinpointing what precisely is disappointing - finding all the words for it. Then allowing ourselves to feel these things. Aren’t we so often rushed into sweeping things away and moving on? And why? Let the feelings happen. We are allowed to be disappointed, scared, angry, let down, sad. And we so often feel we shouldn’t.

Keeping feelings in and trying to mix them with other feelings in order to dilute them can end up a mess. I’m thinking of children mixing Play Doh colours - imagining a marble effect and ending up with a purple-ish brown sludgy blob.  

You can let the feelings stand alone. Let them be. Don’t be rushed. Have the feelings until you don’t have them, or until you’re sick of having them. They’re yours. Nobody else’s. Keep them until you are ready to set them free.

Love from

The room above the garage 

A Moodscope member