The Training Phase

Why We Struggle Emotionally Posts

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01 Emotional intelligence
Why is there a training phase at the beginning of my healing journey?  Because of the way I—and everyone else in this culture—didn’t learn how to take care of my emotional system’s needs.  In other words,...
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02 Why do we have emotions?
If you want to free yourself from your emotional ignorance, you need to understand, on a functional level, why we have emotions.  This will show you how and why you need to learn to engage with your...
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03 Neglect and core debilitation
When we’re learning how to use our emotional system as we engage with and find our place in life, the problem is that we need to make mistakes and to get torn up emotionally in order to learn at least...
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04 My desperate need to escape
I’ve used the last few posts to explain how we’ve normalized a state of emotional core debilitation in this culture that sits at the heart of our emotionally based struggles (Why we struggle emotionally). ...
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