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“Just as healing physical pain requires describing it, talking about it, and sometimes getting professional help, we need to do the same thing with emotional pain.
— Brené Brown
Research professor and author
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)
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