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‘I Get *So* Anxious Over How People React to Me!’

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Heather Havrilesky
Aug 04, 2025
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The School of Vanity (1967), Jane Graverol

Dear Polly,

I really enjoy your writing on understanding and not judging your emotions because that has clicked a bit for me in the last couple of years and it's been a game changer. Due to anxiety and a woo woo upbringing that I've tried to distance myself from, I dismissed the idea of intuition for a long time.…

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