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✨ Week 6 – Reflection Questions
This week, we explore something many people fear deeply without fully realising it…
Emotional avoidance.
Not avoiding situations—
but avoiding feelings.
Take a moment and reflect honestly:
– Which emotions feel hardest for me to sit with?
(anger, sadness, loneliness, fear, vulnerability…)
– What do I usually do when uncomfortable emotions arise?
(overthink, distract myself, stay busy, withdraw, scroll, eat, work, numb…)
– Do I allow myself to fully feel emotions… or do I quickly try to escape them?
– What emotions were not welcomed in my childhood?
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– What happened when I expressed strong feelings growing up?
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Go deeper:
– Am I afraid that if I truly feel something, it will overwhelm me?
– Do I confuse emotional control with emotional strength?
– Do I intellectualise my feelings instead of experiencing them?
Notice your patterns:
– Do I stay constantly busy to avoid myself?
– Do I seek external stimulation when silence feels uncomfortable?
– Do I struggle to sit alone with my emotions?
And gently ask yourself:
👉 What am I trying not to feel?
💛 Emotional avoidance protects you from pain temporarily… but it also keeps you disconnected from yourself.
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✨ Week 6 – Reflection Questions
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