Trust yourself, but verify.
Helpful article here on critical thinking and emotional awareness.
Trust your emotions to reveal something - even if your feelings are off balance.
These are unstable times, and we have been manipulated by some who should care for us.
Trust, but verify.
"To your own self, be true."
If we develop an internal core of values and standards for good character, we can be confident our feelings are indicating something to pay attention to, when we have time to walk through what they might indicate.
Impulse control is very important; verifying feelings may take time.
Emotions are an indicator of something, and even Jesus did not hold back His own emotions; He knew how to be honest as well as self-controlled.
Jesus was grieved at hardness of heart: the callous absence of emotion at human pain.
People created in God's image should care about others deeply. Our feelings are vital to this end, and they should be heeded, if not always relied upon in and of themselves.
Be very wary of those who tell you not to trust your own feelings, particularly if they want you to trust in them as leaders.
Entrust yourself to God, not man.
There is a callousness in our culture right now, and it must be addressed and rebuked.
It is also not for the abuser to demand pity from victims.
It is ok to burn bridges with sociopaths and narcissists who don't care what pain they cause.
Let US grieve.
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