How to vent

Because if we don't vent, if we don't have anywhere for our emotions, our pain, our grievances to go, It can cause a stank, a stench.

Something can feel off.

We start to feel heavy, weighed down, like an elephant's on our chest.

Those emotions, they don't leave.

They just kind of get stored into the The muscles, the tissues, our liver, that's when you start getting neck pain and back pain and stomach aches and headaches.

And at first, we adjust.

But over time, there's a buildup.

You could even say stress, asthma, cancer, all these different types of chronic issues that can start to spring up because we're not venting.

We're not releasing our pent-up emotional energy.

When I don't vent, when I don't release frustration, anger, grief, it doesn't disappear.

It just circulates internally, leaks out sideways with sarcasm and quote-unquote witty remarks or just kind of shut down.

My patience is less.

My body language is off.

Sometimes I shrink or I overcompensate and act differently.

bigger than I am.

I start to carry an emotional stench I'm not even aware of.

But here's the thing.

I've also learned that not all venting actually helps.

Some of it spreads the smell around.