Special thanks to the author of this article: Arielle Brown and also to Irwantini for sharing this article. How our Feelings Weigh Down our Bodies. Via Arielle Brown on Dec 26, 2014 Lighten your load: express yourself. It isn’t easy being a human being these days. We are told how to look, how to be, how to act and how to feel as a prescription to being loved and accepted by others, and, quite frankly, it blows. We live in a culture obsessed with emotional, mental, physical and spiritual perfection, and in the pursuit of that picture-perfect, even-keeled, inside the box ideal, we start to suppress and shut down who we truly are, because if we’re not tapped into the paradigm social acceptability, then we believe we are sh*t out of luck for a date to the dance—so to speak. What does it feel like to smother your anger under layers of false smiles and stifled words? What does it feel like to perpetually swallow a powerful truth that is begging to be spoken? How does it...
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