🧵 View Thread
🧵 Thread (5 tweets)
PSA since the #SobSquad tide has been rising lately: you 1000% don't need to push yourself into any more of your emotional stuff than you feel ready for. you're protecting yourself from that stuff for *good reasons* and that's worth honoring. it's good to protect yourself! ❤️
feels almost condescending to say that but i do worry about overemphasizing crying too much. you're seeing me poast about crying now but you're not seeing the years i spent spinning my wheels emotionally frozen b/c i didn't have enough support and skill to do anything else
my man @mattgoldenberg also made a good point i agree with when he replied to one of my threads warning about what could happen if you overfocus on crying / emotional release itself: https://t.co/Mh5zhA8arX
it's tricky writing about this stuff for such an unknown audience b/c different kinds of people in different places emotionally need really different advice. hopefully my tweets about my own process can be helpful to people roughly similar to me at least!
i'm grateful for all of your replies to these threads - "omg me too!" is a relief for me to hear and i think helpful for bystanders too, and talking about your experience and advice esp. if it's different from mine really enriches the threads with more nuance and diversity 🤓