For high-agency, competent men, learning to feel emotions registers as a regression — returning to the vulnerable kid who got taken advantage of by feelings. The hard work of emotional suppression was adaptive; unlearning it feels like dismantling armor. Williamson frames the work as keeping the discipline while restoring the feeling, and warns against solo surgery — you need a group of men who can hold space when you crack open.
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