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How to Feel Everything

Stop thrashing, put your face in the water, and glide.

Heather Havrilesky
Apr 07, 2021
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I just reread an Ask Polly letter that feels like a map to the psychosocial snares of the 2010s. It’s all in there: Navigating childhood as a sensitive kid who’s blamed for everything bad that happens in the family, struggling through life as a young adult without knowing how to seek joy. And once happiness finally arrives, the LW feels so fearful she’l…

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