It's okay to be sad sometimes. Our culture is terrified of sadness. It is an unwelcome guest. people will try to make you smile while you're sad. As if they're going to catch a bug if they sit with you in your sadness. All this avoiding and suppressing makes us depressed. It weighs down our system. If we don't have healthy outlets for our sadness, if we don't make spaces in our lives where our sadness is invited to exit, then our sadness becomes toxic and cancerous. There is