Do you ever feel embarrassed when you’re emotional? Like you have to make it stop ASAP? I think almost everyone has had that experience. Many of us have learned that emotions - especially negative emotions - are basically destructive and need to be tamped down. And there’s some good reason for that, right? We don’t want to scream at our kids. We don’t want to cry in an awkward situation. We don’t want to freeze during a presentation at work.  We don’t want to lose our shit! 

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