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feel your feelings - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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we're all just children inside

I found this after writing the piece and couldn’t have depicted this essay better (unfortunately I can’t find the artist to credit for it) Something I have noticed in myself (and many of my smart, self-aware friends) is that we sometimes try to outsmart our emotions instead of just surrendering to them. This “adult way” of dealing with emotions can both help and hurts us. We like to intellectualize, understand, and identify the source of our feelings. We like to pattern-match, notice similarities and differences between them. We like to categorise and explain our feelings. What we don’t…

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