What If Emotional Regulation Is Actually Self-Suppression?
A provocation on anger, suppression, and the inherited operating system
As one learns to listen to the sensations of the body, presence to one’s feelings and emotions in the moment becomes more accessible. Instead of suppressing, you now feel anger well up like a wave crashing ashore.
Then the judgement creeps in – you’re so emotional, why are you angry, it’s not that serious – moments begin to replay. Scenes from a distant …
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