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Change Your Story, Change Your Life –With Lori Gottlieb

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Numbness Isn't the Absence of Feelings

Numbness is a sense of being overwhelmed by too many feelings that we feel like we can't even talk about them, and then they come out in all these behaviours instead. In day to day life, what we see with people who didn't deal with feelings is sadness or anxiety or whatever. That's your feelings are coming out when you're not talking about them. And i should say, too, when we don't talk about our feelings, we have this unconscious desire for our partners to heal us. Like, oh, i found my person, and that personis going to heal all these wounds from childhood because they love me in a way that i wasn't loved as a child

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