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Dec 2019
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112. Vulnerability & Intimacy

KARA LOEWENTHEIL
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Join me this week as I break down how true vulnerability creates intimacy in your life, and how to practice it. The only person who can make you feel vulnerable is you, so I want you to take this work and think about how you might be inflicting your own emotional pain.

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