My sister and I both see the same TCM practitioner who talks a lot about how emotions get stored in organs, and we've started this thing where we text each other about liver qi stagnation or spleen worry patterns throughout the day. It started as supportive but now feels obsessive - like we're constantly monitoring each other's emotional organ health instead of just living our lives, and I think it's making both of us more anxious rather than more balanced.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are using traditional medicine concepts as a sophisticated form of codependent emotional tracking, creating more anxiety than healing.
“Where Are You with TCM and emotional-organ relationships?”
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