Feel The Feels

Why allowing emotions is essential to bypassing burnout — and living a healthy life generally.

Emotions are essential biological states. They are healthy and can be wise guides on our life path. But emotions have a shitty reputation. Especially at work.

For a long time, emotions were frowned upon as a sign of weakness, fragility or hysteria. They were viewed as embarrassing or shameful — the antithesis of science and reason.

Emotions also used to be viewed as the domain of the feminine, the so-called “weaker sex” (vomit). Men, who formed almost the entirety of the modern-day workforce until relatively recently, were taught to negate or ignore all emotions in order to garner professional respect and get ahead.

Our distaste for emotion has only increased with our highly digitalized lives, obsession with busyness, and our addictive work culture. Emotions are annoying impediments to productivity that need to be quashed!

What happens when you ignore anger, or resentment? It grows. It comes to define you, or a relationship you have, or the expectations you have of others.