With instant gratification, busy schedules, and high-speed internet, some of us have forgotten how to sit with discomfort, how to be patient, how to allow ourselves to feel in order to heal. Others of us never learned how to deal with painful emotions and still others were abused and not allowed to express themselves. We’ve been told that we can pop a pill and make the problem go away. All we’re really doing is masking the problem. It does go out of sight, but it doesn’t disappear. It goes underground where it continues to hurt us. By the time it surfaces, so much time has elapsed since the ca
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