Pre-UFYB 12: Substance Use & Abuse
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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The Difference Between Resisting and Allowing an Urge
When you allow an urge, you're not resisting it, you are being curious about it. You allow it to exist without wishing it would go away or distracting yourself. So a good practice is to get really curious with yourself about what is the urge and the desire feel like in your body. And keep a list of all the times that you've allowed the urge to be there without acting on it. Right, and see if you can get to 100. But the urge does not get less when you are resisting and white knuckling. The urge only gets less when you practice allowing it without acted on it.
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