Being Vulnerable with ourselves.
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Being vulnerable to yourself can be as tiring as being vulnerable with other people.
If you’ve built walls between yourself and your feelings, pushing them down so you don’t feel them as heavily or intensely, you can become numb. Maybe you feel like you don’t have time or space to feel your feelings, and that they’re too big and scary.
I didn’t do talking therapy until I turned 30. I’d had some cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and group mindfulness stuff, but those were about coping and overcoming the symptoms of my anxiety, it didn’t do much to dig deep into my thought pattens or coping mechanisms.