Your Kick Ass Life Podcast

A couple months ago my daughter walked into my office holding the iPad and crying. My first thought was a bit of panic-- what had she stumbled upon that had so clearly upset her? I opened my arms and asked her what was wrong. She climbed into my lap and showed me the iPad. On it was a video of a baby bunny. “Oh noooo” I thought. “She watched an animal cruelty video” and I braced myself for it. But, that wasn't it. As I watched the video with her, it was a person holding a baby bunny in their hand. Then, they pet the tiny bunny. Then, another bunny. Then, a group a little bunnies. And all the while we watched this, my daughter didn’t just cry, she wept. “Honey, why are you crying?” I asked her. “They’re just so cute, mama. They’re so cute and I love them so much.” Weeping. Just weeping. And I let her weep. I held her and we watched more baby bunny videos, then some newborn puppy videos, where she wept some more. And it got me thinking, how often to we let it all in like that? How often to we let all the feelin