Feelings don’t vanish when ignored.
They wait.
They settle in deeper.
They reroute.
Into your posture.
Your breath.
Your relationships.
Your tone of voice when you’re not even mad… but something still leaks through.
Unchecked feelings don’t go away.
They go inward.
They show up later—sharper, heavier, harder to trace.
I used to brush mine aside.
I thought feeling things made me fragile.
So I stayed “focused.”
Productive.
Fine.
But I wasn’t fine.
I was carrying decades of “not now.”
And it showed up in strange ways:
- Tightness in my chest
- Words I regretted
- Restless sleep
- A short fuse over small things
All from feelings that needed space, not shame.
Unfelt doesn’t mean unfelt.
It means delayed.
And delayed emotions don’t soften — they harden.
The shift came when I started letting them in:
Sadness. Anger. Guilt. Joy. Grief.
All with a breath. All without judgment.
It didn’t break me.
It brought me back.
Feelings are messengers.
Ignore them, and they scream.
Welcome them, and they soften.
That’s the Cushy way.
