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Treat Your Emotional Pain Like Physical Pain

In the face of hurt, our first instinct is to push away. To avoid the discomfort our thoughts and feelings bring and self-preserve in the…

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Joe Gibson
Apr 27, 2023
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In the face of hurt, our first instinct is to push away. To avoid the discomfort our thoughts and feelings bring and self-preserve in the ignorance of our unawareness.

But emotional pain is far from something to be ignored.

Studies point towards emotional and physical pain sharing the same neural networks. That is, …

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