The Soda Can Syndrome

If you're anything like me, you like to take your emotions and feelings and pack them up nice and tight. No one can see them. Everything is under control. That is, until there is some shaking that goes on. You feel the pressure building, but you know if you pop that top open, it's gonna get ugly!
This is what I've been dealing with basically my whole life, but just now actually addressing the issue. I've had to be so independent, that sometimes it is difficult for me to depend on God, although I know in my brain that I really do need Him. When something happens to me, my natural response is to bottle it all up because, hey, I've totally got this under control. But that problem is, when things are bottled up so much and you start getting shaken, pressure builds and eventually, it will explode. Then you've got a sticky situation on your hands.
I'm steady learning to communicate and express my feelings before the pressure even begins to build to avoid a blow out. I'm working to correct my Soda Can Syndrome. 


"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight"
-Proverbs 3:5-6