What You Suppress, Surfaces.
What You Keep Suppressing Will Eventually Find a Way Out The emotional cost of holding everything in and why healing begins when we allow ourselves to feel. There is a truth about life that we don't always want to acknowledge: What you continually suppress has to come out somewhere. We live in a world where people are often praised for being strong. We are told to keep going, hold our heads high, stay positive and not allow our emotions to get the better of us. So we learn to swallow our tears. We silence our frustrations, bury our disappointments and pretend we're okay when, deep down, we're falling apart. We convince ourselves that if we don't talk about something, it will eventually disappear, but emotions don't simply disappear because we refuse to acknowledge them. What happens when we keep everything inside? Think of an untreated wound. When a wound isn't properly cleaned, cared for and allowed to heal, infection can develop beneath the surface. Our emotio...
