People think "emotional maturity" is about being stable & having it all together.⁠

Actually, most of the time that just looks like suppression in our culture.

The gateway to REAL emotional maturity is the unleashing of the messy.⁠

Be willing to feel & express & BE SEEN in your crazy fucking emotional instability.⁠

Of course, one way to deal with emotions is to observe them and not react. This is the masculine spiritual practice.⁠

The less prioritized practice is to FEEL FEEL FEEL your emotions & EXPRESS them!!! The feminine way.⁠

But this has been shamed in our society and people fear the label of "crazy"⁠

There is nothing I love more than witnessing a crazy emotional meltdown 🤩

It opens my heart like nothing else - to see people really lose it 😂🙌💘⁠

We develop TRUE CAPACITY within ourselves by having the range to go fully unleashed into the expression AND to remain solidly present as the observer.⁠

Emotional maturity is actually the ability to do both.

(Note: this is NOT a permission slip to be emotionally abusive or to cross others’ boundaries in your emotional expression. The healthiest way to navigate this in the presence of others is to first ask PERMISSION to express in an uncontained way. Ideally, setting a defined time so that the observer’s nervous system knows that the chaos will come to a definitive end).⁠