Alas, stashing negativity in your emotional basement merely delays the moment when you must open the door and face the mess you’ve stored inside. Blocked emotions, writes one therapist, can even lead to “physical problems like heart disease, intestinal problems, headaches, insomnia and autoimmune disorders.”[22] Burying negative emotions doesn’t dissipate them. It intensifies them, and the contaminants leach into the ground soil of our lives.
