Brad Schipke argues that suppressing emotions prevents healing and that true strength means confronting your feelings privately. Even the most successful people cry. Processing your own emotional problems benefits you, your family, and everyone around you.
If you can't release your emotions and you think that you are a weak person for feeling emotions, then you won't heal because you'll just suppress everything. But everybody feels emotion. That's the thing is that there's not a single person on this planet who doesn't feel emotions. Take the most successful person in the world or whoever you think is the strongest. They still feel emotion. Whether or not they tell you or whether or not they show you or whether or not they actively release it or process it is one thing. But I can guarantee you that unless they're a psychopath, they feel emotion. So you're not bad. You're not weak. You're not a coward for having emotions. It actually takes courage to do it. A strong person releases their emotions. Doesn't mean they put them on other people. But I told myself, if I'm going to to solve this problem for me, if I'm going to fix myself for myself, for my family, for the world, then I have to confront these emotions within myself. And I did that on my own time in private. So that's how you can do it too. You don't have to show the world, but you do have to face the emotions and you have to face it yourself.
