Let yourself cry. It’s Healthy!

Whenever you can, let yourself cry. If you’re feeling sad or depressed, don’t hold back the tears! This may take some practice, but it’s part of getting well and becoming anxiety-free.

If you find you just can’t cry, watch a sad movie or two (or ten). Crying helps purge old, imbedded pain and trauma out of your body’s cellular structure where it’s been stored for many years~ even decades.

If you’re afraid that once you start crying, you’ll never stop, this is our clue as to how much buried pain you’ve been stowing away lifelong. Let it rip! Your crying (if you quit trying to control it) will stop of its own volition~ and might occasionally start that way too, during your recovery process.

We need to learn how to feel sadness in the body and be responsive to it with self-soothing techniques (taught in many of your course videos), instead of analyzing this emotion in your head! Self-soothing methods teach you how to reparent and be kind yourself when you’re in pain, rather than shaming yourself for it. Again, this is essential to healing.

For a little while, crying might seem like it “happens out of the blue” even when you’re unaware of feeling sad. This is a normal event, as you’re recovering from anxiety and panic. I know this can feel weird to you, but don’t worry about it~ it’s only temporary!

We’re moving old, trapped pain out of your body, remember? Allow yourself to purge it. Pull off the road if you’re driving in your car, and let yourself sob it out. Shedding tears is very healing to you~ so go ahead, and “have a good cry!” You will feel considerably lighter afterward!