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Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
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So if you force yourself to "sit with" a "flee this" signal, you're not actually accepting your feelings at all.
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And at the same time, if we're not constantly examining the validity of the "flee this" response and exploring the unconscious material fueling it, we spend our whole life fleeing, often from life itself.
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