NOPE. Having, understanding and expressing feelings is one of the greatest strengths!

I haven't practiced this muscle for a long time so it feels hard and uncomfortable, but the more I do it the better I'll get.

INCORRECT! This hasn't protected me, it has limited me. The feelings are still there, I've just found other ways to deal with them like excessive eating and smoking. No more!

Time to feel the PLEASURE in fully owning, understanding and feeling those feelings and expressing them as needed.

This circumstance is no longer relevant to me

NOPE! I've actually made my life more difficult and limited myself and my life. Enough is enough. Its way harder to disconnect and deny

Really what is the worst case scenario in anything I decide to do. Its that things stay the SAME, which they are now anyway because I'm making them that way.

Also - when I have made a decision and gone after something, have I ever failed? No. And If I did fail, so what. Nobody dies.

Stop expecting a negative outcome and start believing that I've got this. My IB is all knowing, I don't need to know.

This is not something that has been done to me. I can change it and just connect. I am after all the creator of my own reality. If I'm disconnected its because I chose it.

Time to un-choose it and be the version of me that feels those wonderful feelings that either need to be released or will take me where i want to go.

Its a WIN WIN situation

This is just more bullshit you've been telling yourself to allow you to stand still. No more.

My IB is all knowing and has my back 100%

This only now feels slightly true in relation to anything that requires more money than i currently have
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