SENSITIVITY vs. 'HANDLING IT'

Explicit

When does ‘Pull up your bootstraps!’, ‘Toughen up!’, and ‘Take it like a man!’ mean ‘your humanity is showing’ and we don’t like it?

The stereotype says that sensitive people can’t handle their own emotions. I say denying that emotions are a permanent fixture of the human condition isn’t ‘handling it’. Discounting emotions is what is done when that’s all one can bear to do… But what if we can do better?

Recorded May 21, 2023.

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