"Resisting emotions physically keeps you stuck longer Dr. LePera explains that emotions are physiologically designed to pass — 'our body always wants to go back to homeostasis' and will metabolize stress hormones once activated — but most people interrupt that natural cycle. The problem is that 'we begin to tell ourselves a story about what is happening' which keeps the emotion 'alive in our mind and then in our body,' and research now shows that chronic emotional repression causes measurable physical illness. The practical takeaway: allow an emotion to be present and named without immediately narrating a story around it, and your body will do the work of resolving it faster. Source: Dr. Nicole LePera, MindBody Green Podcast, Dr. Nicole LePera on Reparenting Yourself"