When you block emotion out, what you can end up doing is blocking them all out.

So I'll often have people who get to therapy after years of doing that.

And they feel numb and they not only have they managed to block out all these negative emotions.

So life is less painful in that way.

It's almost become more painful because they've also blocked out their ability to feel joy

or pleasure or love and they start to question, gosh, do I love my partner?

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and more. I can't wait to see you this year. Now today's guest is someone that I've been

following on social media for nearly the past couple of years now. And I have loved her content.

The way she presents ideas that are hard to understand in simple ways through incredible

props and demonstrations. I'm blown away by her ability to communicate difficult ideas with ease,

simplicity, and practicality. I'm talking about the one and only Dr. Julie Smith, who's a clinical

psychologist with over a decade of professional experience, having previously worked in the NHS

with veterans and the MOD in addiction and crisis centers and now in private practice.

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