the deepest form of self care is letting ourselves do nothing.
only then can we can sit with the discomfort of looking at the parts of ourselves we try to distract from by doing.
🧠 Intellectualization: using reason & intellect to avoid feeling our emotions. Intellectualizers are more comfortable with logic & rationality than emotionality and are good at speaking through things without actually feeling them. This can be a strength but also a problem