The Art of Sitting With Your Feelings

Most of us were never taught how to feel.

We were taught how to distract.
How to stay busy.
How to be strong.
How to move on quickly.

But almost no one taught us how to sit with what hurts.

So when emotions rise, we reach for noise.
Our phones.
Work.
Food.
People.
Anything that keeps us from being alone with ourselves.

Yet healing doesn’t happen in avoidance.

It hap…