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Lydia PosseltIt’s Thursday morning, and I look in my closet for something to wear. I grab something black (not hard for a pastor) because it’s Thursday. Wait, what? Why does this day have a special meaning over the others?
Most weeks I participate in a movement called “Thursdays in Black.” The idea seems pretty simple: Wear black on Thursdays, snap a selfie, post it on any social media with #Thursdaysinblack. I usually also include an explanation, something like: “I wear black on Thursdays to stand in solidarity with women around the world facing gender-based violence like rape and harassment. We wear black until there is no more violence. Join me.”
We gathered to celebrate my grandmother’s life this Ash Wednesday. Marked with the cross smudged on foreheads, we visited, sharing memories, laughing, crying.
Ashley Updegraff via CanvaIn her 2021 book, Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown, a researcher and author, explores 87 of the emotions that make up the human experience. She engaged in this massive undertaking because, in her research, it became abundantly clear that humans suffer from an inability to name their feelings. In fact, in a study she conducted over 5 years, interviewing over 7000 people, the average number of emotions participants could name was…three. Yes, three. Happy, Sad, and Angry. And yet, Brown claims that “the ability to name [an] emotion or experience is essential to being able to process it in a productive and healing manner.”
If we need to be able to name our emotions in order to process them in a helpful way, but we can only name three emotions, we’re not going to get very far in exploring our interior lives. And as women, we’re at an additional disadvantage, as anger is an emotion we’ve been conditioned to repress and reject.
