in practice, courage is not defined by the absence of fear but the decision to act lovingly in spite of it— and, in doing so, expand your capacity to love
@thrialectics@TylerAlterman The general apocalyptic vibe, I've never seriously read it.
That and once dating a woman who had frequent nightmares about damnation. That might have been much more about her anabaptist church doctrine than anything directly in the text.
@crumbraven@callanable More like it froze, and because water expands when it freezes, it made the can explode. The CO2 also can't stay in the water as it freezes, creating more outward pressure.
Delays in feeling emotions might be the mechanism by which addictive behaviors like procrastination persist.
Donna Meadows has this great section in her book Thinking in Systems about how delays in information flows can shift a system from stable equilibrium to oscillation. Like going from scalding to freezing several times in the shower when there’s a delay, vs getting it just right quickly when there isn’t.
When I procrastinate, I’m doing something to avoid some feeling like fear of failure until I’m forced to face it. But that pattern makes it more likely I fail, or scrape by the skin of my teeth, both of which might make it more likely I procrastinate again the future. Like over-correcting the water temp in the shower.
If I just felt and learned from the fear of failure right away, I might right-size the amount of time I want to spend on the task and move on — better yet, I might even enjoy it.
Whatever type of therapy you are drawn to as a pt. probably reinforces in its structure the ways you already cope with and defend against uncomfortable feelings and aspects of self; however much it helps you it probably won’t help as much as the modality you think is dumb.