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The Terror of Being Seen: Why Vulnerability Feels Like Danger | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound psychological paradox of vulnerability: why the human instinct is to flee when someone truly sees us. Many listeners struggle with the sensation that being perceived is akin to being caught or exposed, leading to a defensive curation of self where we hide our messy emotions behind masks of perfectionism, professionalism, or humor. This episode dissects the evolutionary roots of this fear, explaining how our nervous systems interpret emotional exposure as a survival threat, causing us to build fortresses of…
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