I think all of us can understand that at eight years old, if you are the kind of person who shows emotion and cries and everybody laughs at you when you cry, it sucks.

It really sucks because when you're eight, other than your parents, the only thing that matters are the friends and people around you in terms of how they feel and think about you.

So at some point, during that age period, he just stopped showing emotions in a way,

or at least really learned that it was not okay to show emotions.

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So many of us live, have lived for years, sometimes decades.

Repressing, holding back, bearing, ignoring, really, really important feelings that we've had.

And there's this belief, true or not, but there's this belief that, at least, and those of us

who are doing this work, that like getting to the other side of that and releasing it is the magic formula and it's going to feel really, really good.

Now, by the way, I buy into that belief and it can be a freaking nightmare going through it though.

So I had this session with his client and yesterday we did this really deep work and

and he was having a hard time.

So in the middle, he kind of called himself out on it, which was already a big deal because

four months ago before we started working together, he would never consider telling his

therapist or psychologist that he, it was something wasn't working.

He would just eat it and just pretend like, oh, that was amazing.

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