Why It’s Difficult to Accept Our Deep & Messy Emotions

Yasmeen El Gerbi
6 min readMay 24, 2021
Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash

Have you ever wrestled with conflicting feelings, like feeling hopeful yet fearful? Or feeling like you want to keep on living but you’re also very exhausted?

Have you ever been taken over by overwhelming emotions? And then you tried to suppress them with your mind because feeling too much can be scary, or worse, wrong. Maybe you felt like you had so much to be grateful…

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Yasmeen El Gerbi

I like exploring the complexity underlying our ideas, emotions, stories, norms, and lives.