
#212: Hug Your Inner Child with Violet Benson
The Mark Groves Podcast
How to Move Pastte?
Anxious people are afraid of too much closeness, like where there's no space. Anxious people have to learn how to self regulate and trust their own feelings. The reason i'm dating avoident men is because in my childhood, my dad didn't give me the love, and i felt i had to chase for that love. That's how the story ended. So now, subconsciously, as an adult, i still dating men, similar to my father, we're not giving me love. And anything i do feels more rewarding even if it doesn't end with a fairy tale. I don't think you can do any of that work without doing nervous system work.
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