
Denying Your Emotions
❌علاء☠️التومي❌
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Question of the week</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">John</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dude, I thought this was a podcast that was supposed to help dads with their sons. When are you going to start helping those dads with their sons?</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Main Topic</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are often stoic for many reasons but can that be overdone? Yes, the answer is simply yes. It can be overdone. We as people develop different means to cope with the different events in our lives. Often though we use these coping mechanisms to help us avoid uncomfortable situations or events.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As men, we have a different set of skills and abilities that we are able to use in stressful situations. These skills are often called stoicism. This is where we hold off on letting emotions take ahold of us until a later time. This is because we are often putting ourselves into stressful events, ie war, protecting our family, and similar circumstances. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet sometimes we as humans avoid those emotions or take stoicism to an extreme. Doing this we deny our emotions the life they need to live. We see emotions as this thing that just gets in the way of our comfort and so we avoid circumstances and events that cause unwanted emotions to crop up. We resist those</span> <a href= "https://www.relaxedmale.com/types-of-emotions/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">emotions we perceive to be bad emotions</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why you don’t want to resist your emotions</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emotions are the color of your memories. When we remember back to times when we were young we think of how you felt. I remember the smell of my great grandparent’s property. Central Texas in the spring. Everything smelt green you had the fragrances of henbit and sag