Tag: emotional regulation

Men and feelings. For a lot of men, those two words were never meant to go together. So many men were taught they have to be strong, and that crying is weakness. Don’t feel it. Don’t show it. Toughen up. And so they learn to push it all down and carry on, often for decades. […]

When a big emotion arrives, most of us do one of two things. We react, or we shut down. We react by blowing up, saying things we regret, letting it spill out sideways onto the people around us. Or we shut down, going quiet, swallowing it, and letting it sit in the body for years. […]