A single-speaker podcast/YouTube monologue about emotional expression and the difficulty adults face learning to process and express emotions when they weren't raised in emotionally open environments. The speaker notes that some adults must learn from scratch whether feelings are acceptable and that emotions can become overwhelming, making the work of exploring them feel impossible.
So I think that sometimes if people are not raised in an environment where emotions are an accepted part of the behavior in the home, or if it's just something where people are not given the opportunity to express emotion or dig into that, I think that that, for a lot of us, ends up being something that we then, as adults, have to learn on our own. That what is this supposed to look like? Is it okay for me to have these feelings? Is it okay for me to say this out loud? But I think that also the hurdles are the emotions that become so big and so overwhelming and so constant, that the work required to get to the other side of it, or the work required to explore it or have it even have more meaning to a person, sometimes that just is too much. And it's like, I don't even know where to start.
