What Happened When You Cried as a Child?

0:00 — Why Tears Make Us Uncomfortable 2:43 — What We Do When Kids Cry 6:17 — The Reading Analogy 9:52 — What I Saw in Cameroon 14:38 — Phones as the New Silence 18:11 — Why We Reach for Things 22:47 — Learning to Observe Yourself 26:09 — What People Said to My Friend 29:33 — Who to Let Go During Grief 32:41 — The Question I Was Afraid to Ask Nobody taught us how to feel. They taught us how to stop feeling, and we've been paying for it ever since. In this video I'm talking about something I've been sitting with for a long time: why we can't handle difficult emotions as adults, and why that's not a personal failure. You'll hear why I think it all traces back to childhood, what we actually witnessed when we cried as kids, and why the people around you during grief can either hold space or become an obstacle to your healing. This one's honest and it doesn't wrap up neatly, because this topic doesn't. If this hit something in you, drop it in the comments. Tell me what happened when you cried as a child. I genuinely want to know.