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Hello Devon, I really admire your work and I'm learning so much from it, thank you for all that you do. I recently listened to the WCDHT podcast with your interview and was struck by the part where you talked about how dread is a good indicator to stop and listen to what doesn't work for you. I feel like me as a person with an intense anxiety disorder that is hard to apply to my life, as a lot of the therapy for that anxiety is confronting things I dread. do you have any more advice on how to discern when dread (or simmilar feelings) are coming from a helpful place and how I might be able to listen to them? thank you ♥

Try to listen instead to locate resentment! When I say listen to dread, I don't mean listening to the feeling that "I am certain something bad is going to happen / i am going to get in trouble" which is a very common experience for the anxious. What I mean is feelings of "I don't know why I agreed to do this." "I'm getting nothing good out of this" "I only did this because someone would get mad at me if I wouldn't." THAT kind of dread. The resentment of external pressure. Notice that feeling, as lots of anxious people get guilted to do things they don't want to do! And try listening it to better build up your self advocacy skills and tolerance of upsetting others.

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Regional anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery, 1891

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Lars Elling (Norwegian, 1966), Oppenheimer’s Garden. Oil and egg tempera on canvas, 200 x 200 cm.

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