Are You Working So Hard to Repress Your Emotions?

Young's work is really looking at our shadow and these things that we want to repress about ourselves. Why do you think we work so hard to repress some of these pieces? One, I think that it's natural. We have these innate sort of defense mechanisms that help us protect ourselves from difficult feelings or painful emotional experiences. But also there's a lot of social messaging that we get about how to respond to our emotions. So if you start to understand that there are parts of yourself that don't fit completely within those values, it's hard to face that.

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