Jenn Simmons, MDThe Doctor with The Answer to Breast Cancer

Healing is all about what we allow ourselves to feel and release.✨#healing #podcast #womenshealth

Name: Healing is all about what we allow ourselves to feel and release.✨#healing #podcast #womenshealth
Uploaded: 2025-04-02T19:24:28+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Jenn Simmons, MD
Description: A short YouTube monologue by Jenn Simmons, MD describing how learned suppression of emotions ("silent rage")—taught by cultural messages like "girls…

2 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Jenn Simmons, MD describing how learned suppression of emotions ("silent rage")—taught by cultural messages like "girls don't cry"—led to being "locked up" and contributed to a prolonged, serious illness. The speaker frames healing as allowing feelings and releasing them.

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But so many of us are walking around in a silent rage because we were told, don't let it out. Don't you be angry. Don't cry, don't scream. Girls don't cry. Good girls don't get angry. Right. You look like there's no crying in baseball. Isn't that what Tom Hanks said? There's no crying. No crying in baseball. Right. Yes. And so for many, many years, I walked around in a silent rage because it wasn't. I, I, I didn't feel entitled to feel what I was feeling. Yeah. Or to express what I was feeling. And so completely locked up inside my body, which manifested as, you know, I went through a very, very long and hard journey with illness. Very long and hard journey. Wow. I didn't know that. And so much of it was this rage locked inside of me.