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Aug 2021
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28. How Confessing Your Thoughts to your...

NATALIE KENNEDY
About this episode

If you've ever found yourself confessing your intrusive thoughts to your partner in order to feel better, you're not alone! However, you might be doing more harm to yourself and to your relationship than good. In this episode, I offer a compassionate view on where the urge to confess comes from, along with some reframes of how to stop it so that you can trust yourself and relieve your partner from the burden of having to rescue you from your discomfort.

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