Are you a Gentle Snowflake? Take the Quiz

WARNING: If you're a snowflake, you might not like this post.

To find out if you are a gentle snowflake, answer 'YES' to all that apply to you:

• Snowflakes can't handle a difference of opinion.
• Snowflakes are overtly emotional in public.
• Snowflakes have this unconscious need for an apology.
• Snowflakes need to find others who back them up.
• Snowflakes love to justify their cancel culture ways.
• Snowflakes have little to zero space to look at their emotions before they lash out.
• Snowflakes then justify their own negative reaction.
• Snowflakes believe they are 100% right and others are categorically wrong.
• Snowflakes live with ample fear of the world.

If you answered yes to 3 or more examples, you have strong snowflake tendencies.

BUT WAIT! There is a CURE!

It's called BECOMING SELF AWARE.

And I don't mean that condescendingly! I really mean what I'm saying. AWARENESS of the SELF is KEY!

Here are some remedies for being too sensitive and overreacting.

1. The second you feel an emotional reaction coming on, STOP it in its tracks. Acknowledge the feelings, but don't give in to them. BREATH.
2. Recognize the negative reaction you're feeling is about to be unleashed onto someone else. If you move forward with that energy, you instantly become a part of the problem and perpetuate more negativity to the matter. Hence there can be no solution.
3. Consider that MAYBE there's some or partial truth to what the other person is saying. MAYBE there's more information on the pain point that you don't know yet. Put your ego aside, and reconsider MAYBE you don't know 100% of the facts.
4. Begin to notice the anger and negative emotions can be an addictive state. Especially with everyone living through months of quarantine, feeling "something" is better than living a regular uneventful day over and over again. These charged emotions allow us to feel "alive" and give us something dramatic to talk about.
5. This one is going to be difficult for some... The qualities, personalities, beliefs you dislike in the other person actually LIVE in YOU. Unconsciously you are vehemently rejecting the shadows of your Full Complete Self.

The truth is we all have our pain points, but what matters most is how we RESPOND to them.

Let's do better because we CAN BE BETTER. Stop justifying the adverse reactions and energy as acceptable behavior. It's not.

This means letting go of controlling others and how they choose to show up. We're NEVER going to change them with defensive, argumentative, emotionally charged reactions anyway. So what's the point?

It's time to put on the big boy/ girl pants and become responsible for the energy WE put out in the world.

No one is expecting perfection, but at least we can make an effort.

With lots of LOVE,

Teresa

PS. Those pants look good on you!

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