What Self-Help Gets Wrong About Feelings

Okay. Now What? - A Show for The Young and The Anxious. by Kate Gladdin

Aug 26, 202626:37Health

Go looking for help with how you're feeling and it's all the same promise: get rid of the anxiety. Stop the overthinking. Build the confidence. Find the motivation. Sit with what that's actually teaching us - that the fe...

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