The Emotions He Was Never Taught to Feel

What happens when you spend your life doing everything “right”… but feel nothing at all on the inside?In this episode of The Story Seat, Adam Tomlin shares his journey from a successful career as an attorney to confronting the emotional disconnection he had carried for years. Raised in an environment where only certain emotions were acceptable, he learned early on to suppress what he felt—until that way of living began to catch up with him.What started as a personal decision to seek therapy—driven by a desire to show up differently for his son—became a much deeper process of unlearning, healing, and rebuilding his relationship with himself.This conversation explores emotional awareness, the pressure of masculinity, and the powerful shift from seeing compassion as weakness to recognizing it as strength.Because sometimes, the hardest thing to face…is what you were never taught how to feel.