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Emotional numbing is an internal protective mechanism. You cope with feeling too much by feeling nothing at all. This is wonderfully adaptive in the short-term—it gets you through intensely stressful ...

When an emotion arises, how do you usually respond? For many, suppression and analysis are the default, but truly processing emotions is key to healing and stronger connections. Most of us were never ...