It’s not that this first step makes you feel great, but it can help neutralize what’s going on and help you detach a little. Acknowledgment is about pulling yourself out of the situation, standing up above yourself, looking down and seeing what’s happening on the ground right now. Sometimes it helps me to view myself as different versions of myself. I’ll think, What age is feeling this right now? Which Bethany is showing up here? Am I acting as my teenage self or an earlier self? Then I try to recruit another part of myself to speak compassionately to that side of me. Often, adult Bethany
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