How Curiosity Can Help You Get Unstuck in Your Feelings

How to Get Your Heart and Your Brain on the Same Page
Curiosity can help you bridge the gap between intellectual understanding and emotional reality
Lincoln Hill, PhD
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Mar 31, 2021
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Photo by Alex Radelich on UnsplashI know better than this. Why am I still so stuck in my feelings? We’ve all been there — in that uncomfortable space between knowing something to be true, but the intellectual knowledge not being enough to fix or…
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Written by Lincoln Hill, PhD
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Black woman, mental health counselor, researcher, wellness consultant, PhD in counseling psychology, and Beyoncé stan. IG: black_and_woman_IG
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