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How To Feel Emotions

Teal Swan

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Trauma Relative to Feeling in and of Itself

If you are unable to feel, it's pretty much a guarantee that you experience trauma relative to feeling in and of itself. It must be said here that in general, people who cannot feel had caregivers in their childhood that were dismissive in their style of attachment. This means they were threatened by intimacy, especially emotional intimacy, and so they value independence. The child is forced to get their needs met and stay on their parents good sides by not threatening their parent. And not threatening the dismissive parent means acting like they have no needs or emotions.

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