This was so helpful — thank you. | by Elle Rogers

…l signs of hurt feelings or conflict and not try to push them away or distract ourselves from them. Once we can become aware of what’s happening in our body, we can then start to attach the emotional language to the sensations. Fear, embarrassment, anger, shame, unworthiness, vulnerability, etc.

Do You Shut Down Instead of Speak Up?

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Vanessa Bennett

Elle Rogers

1 min readJul 23, 2018

This was so helpful — thank you. I’m someone who tends to shut down, and I can see how focusing on the physical experience would help to slow my reactions.

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Written by Elle Rogers

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Mommy. Wife. Writer. Lunatic. My debut poetry collection, “The Weight of Need”, is available on Amazon.

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