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your feelings will get in touch with you

quote

Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they’ll get in touch with you.

Context

The long-timers' correction of the recovery cliché: not the therapeutic "get in touch with your feelings" but the grimmer, truer inversion — "they'll get in touch with you." The White Flaggers with real sober time reformulating the slogan into a warning about the buried affect that returns on its own schedule, unbidden.

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