How to Deal With Negative Addictions

Eric: I think there are a lot of inhibitors in normal life. And what I mean by that is, you can have different addictions that we use to cope with difficult emotions, can also cap our ability to feel positive emotions. Even things like coffee even can affect your ability to process an emotion because it's stimulating you to such a degree that it removes your ability to feel the primary emotions that your body is trying to fire off. Eric: Once I was able to address my social media consumption, some negative addictions that I have, that gave me a more accurate baseline and allowed me to actually feel greater amounts of joy. But at any level, when we fall into that, like

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