When Emotions Have Nowhere to Go
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When Emotions Have Nowhere to Go
Not accessing and expressing our emotions leads to numbness, stuckness, lethargy, and depression. Yes, when we unleash the feelings and emotions that want to come out, it can be really painful at first. But once you get through it, you often feel different afterward.
A lot of the people I knew who dismissed “emo” while the genre was at its peak did so because they believed emotions were things that should be sacred and unspoken, not screamed out to the listening masses. I push back against that, both in personal practice and as someone who has seen the other side of that coin, or known people completely eaten
... See moreOften we notice the emotional buildup and push it back down, waiting for a better time or telling ourselves that it’s not worth our energy. And we advise others to pick their battles wisely, doing everything they can to keep the peace. But if we make a habit of pushing the frustration too far down, sometimes we begin to believe we’re at fault for
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