The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.