When you see a therapist for anxiety, the one advice you'll hear often repeated—especially if you're as bullheaded as I am—is to feel your feelings. It seems paradoxical, to willingly open the door to ragged breathing, clammy hands and tense limbs as though they were beloved friends. Instead of allowing them to pass freely, you want to bar the gates wit…
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