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149. How to Heal with Alex Elle
We Can Do Hard Things
Are You Having Unhealthy Self-Soothing Strategies?
If you don't know what your self-soothing strategies are, that means it's probably working too much. I actually see this with my 14-year-old who has anxiety as well and a part of her anxiety is skin picking. She doesn't skin pick or self-harm to end her life, but she does it because it feels good to her. And something that I have committed to not doing is telling her to stop crying. We should say cry, cry, cry. You know, if that's part of healing, it's not the absence of healing.
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