Using Achievement - and Exercise - to Cope
The Anxious Achiever
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Quote Unquote Therapy - How Did It All Come Together?
When I was 14 and I was sent to this residential treatment center, the way that we had quote unquote therapy, it was not really like talking about our feelings or like processing trauma and abuse. And so it kind of imprinted on me this idea of like, okay, the people in power, they have a certain story that they want to hear from me. If I can tell it, I can have freedom. And if I fail, I will be punished. That's how it truly was an all or nothing decision. It really, really felt like that.
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