Physical pain is easier to deal with than emotional pain. It's tangible, you can look at it and see it and understand it. Especially if people have invalidated your emotions time and time again, it feels like what you feel is wrong or unacceptable somehow, but it's still how you feel. If you transform it into something physical, then you have proof that you hurt. But it doesn't work for long. Eventually the emotions catch up with you anyway.
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“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”
– John H. Groberg
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