I don't know if I'm handling any of my emotions very well, but I think it's better than what it would have been. I don't think it's ever a good idea to suppress emotions. There has to be healthy channels and for everybody, the healthy channels are different. So find your healthy channel to be able to work through some of the emotions that we feel. Because despite what other people might tell you, grief is a valid emotion. Anger is also a valid emotion
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:28
Hey, Shelley, this is Deborah Pardes. I think we both got back from the podcast movement event, and I just wanted to resonate out loud with you. That emotional. They're hard. I wouldn't trade them in for anything, of course, because without them, we're pretty deadened and not experiencing the gift of being alive and available to the full spectrum of being human
Shehla Faizi
@iamatopodcast · 2:18
It's one of those things that just because we have this I guess the weird thing, it is probably called a rivalry or something between the genders, that there is a lot of pointing fingers, that one is more emotions hard one is less emotional. But all of us feel emotions. And all of those emotions have to be named for what they are and felt for what they are. But again, we do have to sort through them
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Yeah, I feel this pretty hard. It takes a lot to kind of navigate and sit with the emotions. And I agree with you when it's like a lot of men will say that women are the emotional type or the overly emotional. But I think that we all have the desire, the innate experience of life within us to go through the waves of emotions. And maybe men have a harder time openly feeling and sitting in the discomfort. So I can speak to that and represent that
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 4:43
You did the first thing that you need to do to feel better, I think, which is to talk to people about it and to be brave about it. It's so strange to me how we're so embarrassed about having big emotions. And I worry for the rest of the world because I was raised by a therapist who put me in therapy because I have to be in therapy. When I was very young. I've been in therapy forever
Shehla Faizi
@iamatopodcast · 3:43
And I think that's what sort of gets passed down, even though we don't mean for it to be passed down, but it does that our instinct is to suppress those emotions of anger and sadness. I think we are at the point in our evolution that we can finally sort of start unpacking sadness and anger in a much healthier way, thanks to all the wonderful therapists that are out there like your mom