Most people were never truly taught how to feel. We were taught how to manage emotions quickly. How to minimize them. How to move through them without slowing down too much. Push through. Move on. Stay strong. Don’t overreact. Don’t be “too emotional.” And while those messages may have been well-intentioned, many of us learned to treat our emotions like problems instead of parts of ourselves that needed care and attention.

Many of us were taught to push through emotions rather than listen to them. To stay strong. To move on quickly. To avoid feeling “too much.” But emotions don’t disappear when they’re ignored — they wait.