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When treating emotions like living beings changes everything

My therapist says I'm anthropomorphizing my anxiety but when I picture it as a scared animal that needs care instead of an enemy to fight, everything shifts and I don't know what to make of that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The modern mind struggles to integrate therapeutic insights that arise from animistic ways of understanding.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Animism — the oldest spirituality across cultures?”

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