Tapestry49:57Let yourself cry, baby
When was the last time you cried?
If you feel embarrassment over the idea of a good sob, Benjamin Perry, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based minister, says it’s time to shake that shame.
“Emotional suppression is sneaky,” the author of Cry, Baby: Why Our Tears Matter told Tapestry host Mary Hynes.
“Often it doesn’t happen because of some traumatic incident, but by a slow process of attrition where we stop making room for emotions in our lives.”
It was in Perry’s early 20s, at seminary, that he realized he hadn’t cried in years. He attributes that to negative perceptions of masculinity, internalized homophobia
