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Low mood and hard feelings
Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.
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2 practicesTheme · When you use something to cope
When · Under stress
If you are using something to cope and it has become hard to stop, please speak to a doctor before changing anything.
Most people can tell you exactly why the thing is a bad idea. The trouble arrives later, when feeling is running high and all that reasoning is nowhere to be found.
So treat it as a doing problem rather than a knowing problem. Decisions made calmly and in advance travel into hard moments much better than…
With vaping the pull is often not the hit at all. It is knowing the thing is there in your pocket if you need it.
One fifteen year old described it exactly that way: the comfort was that she could, not that she did. If that is your pattern the work sits in two…