Sentences with phrase «numbing out»

And while people often start an addiction with the intention of just numbing out the negative emotional end of the spectrum, they simultaneously limit their ability to experience positive emotions.

Numbing out seems like a survival approach, precisely because so many are living with perceptions of how things should be, but are not, with little real knowledgeable help available.

She describes three main argument patterns among couples: # 1: «Find the Bad Guy,» basically a fingers - pointing, blame - one - another game; # 2: «The Protest Polka,» the more one person approaches, the more the other one turns away, often through numbing out or detachment; and # 3: «Freeze and Flee,» which is when both partners run away from each other.

Not the get home from work and slump in front of the tube for hours of mindless consumption kind of obsession (that's just numbing out).

While technology has tremendous upsides, it becomes a problem if you use it to procrastinate, numb out, or run from problems.

Being so immersed in a warrior culture will help numb out some of the aspects of war that is too much to handle.

My pain is so intense That you must numb out and no longer feel me.

People who choose this path should remain on strong anti-psychotic medication and «numb out» reality.

Or they may be so «numbed out» by keeping demons at bay they can't engage with life's pleasures or protect themselves from future trauma.

And I remember many days when I turned to substances when I got tired of it all and tried to forget or numb out the uncomfortable feeling of being different, not liked, and more than anything, the effort of always trying to be something I confidently wasn't.

I eventually turned to more drugs and more alcohol, hoping the sparkly surface of the party life would numb out the incessant pestering of this feeling inside.

It's about moving toward your feelings rather than away from them with various forms of self - abandonment, such as staying focused in your head, judging yourself, turning to addictions to numb out, or making someone else responsible for your feelings.

I felt like I self - medicated with food just to numb out the stress and sadness I was feeling.

Food helps to numb the emotions we'd rather not feel in the same way alcoholics drink to numb out.

No need to numb out to pass out.

There are probably few things in life more stressful than facing a real or potential layoff, but this is no time to be passive or numbed out.

Sometimes we just don't know what to do with that discomfort when it comes up though, and instead we numb out, act out or simply stop living our lives the way we want.

Ironically, the addict gains little satisfaction from the sexual behavior because the desired result is to numb out painful feelings and avoid feeling bored.

So, I think that what happens when we fight is that the more I feel rejected, the more I numb out with anger and start accusing you of shit, and the more you feel not seen or heard, and you just detach from me completely.»

Without a secure bond to others, people become depressed, anxious, or distressed, and tend to numb out or become angry and push others away

A guide can walk you through intense or numbed out emotions that might otherwise block you.

If you're starting to numb out and lose attraction, this chapter suggests what you do to start resuscitating the part of yourself that's going dormant.

Often clients come in with specific issues that they hope to improve: anxiety, depression, isolation, emotions all over the place or numbed out, work stress, marital conflict.

You begin to numb out.

The fear of being deserted or dismissed, the tendency to numb out and check out, or the automatic tendency to deny your need for closeness, can all be addressed through the EFT process.

It's much easier to get defensive, act superior, numb out, or overreact and fire off that email we'll regret later.

We have numbed out and are wrapped up in ruminations, or persistent thoughts that often have a flavor of despair, desperation, and hopelessness.

They have learned how to numb themselves out so that they don't feel the consequences.

We might numb out and ignore our own pain, in order to try to focus on caring for our partner's pain.

We are always experiencing an emotion, though when we're not aware of feeling anything, most likely we are numbed out and cut off from our internal emotional experience.

Not exact matches

«We put it out first by not becoming numb to the fact that the truth is being assailed every day.

It is truly mind - numbing that a moment after a temporary surge of trillions of dollars, borrowed and tossed out of a helicopter (though to specific corporations and private beneficiaries), analysts would hail a subsequent improvement in corporate results as evidence of «resilience.»

Its mind numbing that there are people out there that believe the earth is only 6000 years old.

Perhaps the bible people should point out to the president that he is probably going to burn in hell, right?Mind - numbing stupidity.

In regard to the demands of Jesus as Master of disciples, we find his Lordship turning out to be not numbing but liberating: «So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed» (John 8:36).

I think Christians ought to be out into the community and not just be comfortably numb as pew potatoes.

We got out of the way before we could find out what happened (and I've searched the internet to see if there was any news, but nothing appears, which I'm hoping is a good sign), but the sight left us numb and shaky.

until our slowing fingers numbed, stroking out his ancient stone with gentleness like fishes» fins, tinkering his resurrection»

She is fleeing Colombia, with its dead horizons and numbing poverty, and heading out to a land of promise.

I stretch out my left arm, the one that is always in pain or numb as a result of the injury, and here comes the rain to me.

Slowly: out of that sleep that numbs the knife edge, I come home to a various world, to faces and voices, To a blur of angels at this keep, awaiting.Vague prophecies of life somewhat lasting, A testing of steadying heartbeat, of firm susperation.Such is the welcomed review of my waking, I, who long....

It is such conscious «choice» that Thomas seems to believe is the only effective Christian vocation — consciously taking hold with one's eyes the cast - out landscape that numbs through its repetition and unarticulated contours, and resting there with it until the spot of suffered color brushes by.

Why should God become the numbing agent to wipe out all life's suffering?

Heavier than I thought it would be considering just one month ago, when I was so cracked out on synthetic hormones it was doing some seriously crazy shit to my body (numb legs, hella hair loss, insatiable hunger, etc), there was nothing I wanted more than to be back home with my fancy mixer and memory foam mattress and all that other stupid shit I used to think we required to be happy.

The brand is crucial, I think, since I gave up after 45 minutes of peeling chickpeas because my feet were numb, I had a small bowl of halves and parts and a few whole, and lots scattered about the sink, counter and kitchen because they sometimes (but VERY seldom) popped out of their skins.

Way late on the commentary, but I would like to point out that originally I made this and it was terrible... Then I realized I had put in a ton of vanilla extract on top of the vanilla bean, so I was dizzy and my tongue was numb for a reason.

Conservatism has been the rule in the USFL, and many contests are played out with numbing caution.

Even those of us Arsenal fans who have become somewhat numb to the constant and numerous injury problems that our club has to cope with, the build up of Arsenal players getting injuries and then missing lengthy periods out of the game can get too much and I for one am thoroughly pig sick of it all.

Joe willock played well for the first 60/70 minutes then began to tire that I feared he was going numb and about to pass out.

He would remove his shirt, and a nurse would swab the lump with disinfectant and squirt it with ethyl chloride to numb it, flush out the tube inserted inside his superior vena cava with saline solution, take his blood and send him back to the waiting room while the lab ran tests on the blood.