So emotional reactions are things that you've learned from your environment, and were often adaptive strategies that served a purpose at the time, right? And one of the reasons to relearn them is that they were learned in childhood, and they may not work well as an adult.
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Me: Self-compassion! Find your inner child and hug it! Me shortly later: *experiences emotionally profound body shift from realising that kids are dumb and you can laugh at yourself when you're being dumb and that's OK*
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I *think* this is made better by the fact that I went through the self-compassion phase first, but apparently my shadow is particularly delicious today.
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…well, fuck
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Ha ha yeah.
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So, that's exactly why I'm going around stumping for books that are upfront about the fact that the world is not fair, which means (a large chunk of strategies) mostly doesn't work.
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Yeah. And I mean I'm aware the world isn't fair and I think have largely internalised this. I just keep finding stuck bits of mine from before I figured shit out that I need to apply the emotional equivalent of WD-40 and a hammer to.
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