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What does it mean?
Avoiding deep feeling prevents healing emotional pain.
In plain terms
If you avoid feeling you cannot heal.
What can you take from it?
Feeling pain is necessary to heal it.

Where it applies

  • processing trauma
  • avoiding emotions
  • learning to heal

Putting it to work

  • allow yourself to feel
  • embrace vulnerability

Questions to consider

  • What feelings have you avoided?
  • How do you heal emotional pain?

Another view

It oversimplifies healing which can involve complex steps.

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