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Old May 16, 2018, 12:06 PM
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I think t’s in the past encouraged the naming of emotions so I could learn what to do about them if anything. If the emotion was attached to a need I had to learn to ask for what I needed. This comes naturally to lots of people but I grew up in an invalidating family so I had to unlearn invalidating my own emotions.