Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
Your instincts may tell you that you can__ survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. They__e the ones that first told you to freeze your feelings. They themselves are frozen and haven__ grown with the rest of you. These instincts don__ know that you__e far more capable of learning to cope with overwhelming emotion now than when you were a [child].
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Your instincts may tell you that you can__ survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. They__e the ones that first told you to freeze your feelings. They themselves are frozen and haven__ grown with the rest of you. These instincts don__ know that you__e far more capable of learning to cope with overwhelming emotion now than when you were a [child].
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