Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Feeling emotions is health. THIS is NOT!

3 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of his YouTube video, Lewis Howes argues that feeling and expressing emotions is fundamentally healthy, but the manner and target of that expression matter. He distinguishes between constructive emotional release—acknowledging feelings in appropriate contexts—and destructive catharsis, such as yelling at others or oneself. He shares a childhood memory where he believed he could suppress an emotion, only to realize later that bottling it was harmful. The core message is that choosing the right time, place, and method for emotional expression is essential for mental well‑being.

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Feeling emotions obviously is healthy, right? The ability to feel your feelings. What's probably not healthy is catharsis directed at somebody else, like angry, mean, screaming at them, you know, screaming at yourself. You know, I guess there's so. I mean, I've let out some pretty loud yells at myself that were pretty effective, I think, you know? I think so. There's a time and a place for it. We know that pushing down of emotion is. Is not healthy. One particular event in my childhood history where I remember feeling something earlier, and I was like. And I was like, wow, that's good. I can do that. I can pack that down. That turned out to be not so great. That's not good. Not so great. But the ability to pick time and place for and way of expressing emotions is obviously key.