How to Let Go of an Exile

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Excelsior: "There's some sort of pain and usually some sort of belief that people will hold on to" He says he tries to get the whole story from a younger version of himself. Then there is symbolic letting go, such as throwing something into a bonfire. Excelsior: I would find in the ideal case, then the emotion would sort of lift and be like, okay, I felt it. But now it happened and so now I don't need to keep feeling that."

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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