Phrases with «emotional avoidance»

Emotional avoidance means intentionally avoiding or resisting feeling and expressing emotions, often to protect oneself from experiencing discomfort, pain, or vulnerability. It involves a tendency to suppress, ignore, or minimize emotions instead of facing and dealing with them. Full definition

emotional avoidance

Sentences with «emotional avoidance»

One big goal of marriage counseling techniques is to decrease emotional avoidance and to bring couples closer together. (marriage.com)
Participants also worked to identify emotional avoidance versus emotional acceptance and the consequences of each. (crimesolutions.gov)
These include reliving the event through intrusive memories and dreams; emotional avoidance such as steering clear of reminders of the trauma and detaching emotionally from others; and hyperarousal that causes sufferers to startle easily, sleep poorly and be on alert for potential threats. (scientificamerican.com)
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Phrases with «emotional avoidance»

Sentences with «emotional avoidance»

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