The Importance of Allowing Oneself to Feel Sad

The partially animated video from The School of Life entitled “How to Be Sad” stresses the importance of understanding and expressing one’s feelings, particularly when they lean more to the negative rather than to the positive.

There is such pressure on us to be cheerful. And yet in order properly to be content, we need to learn, sometimes, the art of being constructively in touch with our sadder, more melancholy feelings.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.