Once you have a sense of your personal vulnerabilities and what replenishes you, you can be more proactive. If you know that you feel emotionally vulnerable when you spend too much time alone at home, making plans and getting out can prevent you from plunging into emotion mind. A yoga teacher friend once told me that she feels especially alone when she doesn’t have physical connection in her life. Rather than jump into bed with strangers, which isn’t her style and also increases her vulnerabilities (more on this later in the chapter), she tries to schedule ten-minute chair massages and goes to
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