When you numb the pain, you also numb the joy. Healing is learning to feel it all again—without drowning in it.
This quote highlights the dual cost of emotional avoidance. Many trauma survivors unconsciously shut down all feeling to avoid pain—only to lose access to joy, love, and creativity too.
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