Accept difficult emotions - Example
- If you consistently try to escape your grief by using alcohol or drugs, you’re teaching your brain that grief and sadness are dangerous. Now you’re anxious about grieving.
- If you immediately try to calm yourself down any time you feel anxious, you’re teaching your brain that it’s bad to feel anxious. Now you’re going to become anxious about getting anxious.
- Just because you feel anxious speaking in public doesn’t mean public speaking is dangerous and you should avoid it in the future.
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