exploration and acceptance. Exploration. How am I feeling? What's really going on for me? Oh,

it's this thing. God, I feel really terrible feeling that. I shouldn't be feeling that. Okay.

Acceptance. Exploration and acceptance over and over and over.

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This idea that the experience we're having is somehow not okay and therefore has to be repressed.

And it's actually in the repressing that we damage ourselves

more than in having the feelings that we are uncomfortable with is almost the origin of everything

we do here but you know I had like emotional whiplash this weekend my mom came to visit it's been

almost a year and a half since she visited she lands from plane. Everybody's so happy to see her. And then 20 minutes in, she says, hey, I don't want you to worry, but, you know, I went on the plane. I went to the restroom and I looked at my face. And my left lip is kind of like droopy and my my speeches um I feel like I'm slurring my

words like I wasn't even sure I could talk before I got here and started talking you and you know

not a physician but from a family of physicians and PhD in neuroscience I was like oh that's a

fucking stroke like that's a fucking stroke.

Like, that's the only way to explain what you just said out loud.

I'm like, I'm glad you don't want me to worry, but this is exactly why I'm supposed to worry. And so made a few kind of like quick checks, talked to one doctor and he was like, you have to get to the ER right now.

And so it was like complete whiplash. It wasn't a horrible stroke. It was, you know,

it wasn't transient either if you had a stroke. And the team we drove to UCLA, which obviously I feel connected to in many, many ways,

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