About this episode

Danielle discusses the tendency to invalidate personal pain and the choice to remain in harmful situations.

In this episode, Danielle unpacks something that comes up constantly in her work with clients: the tendency to invalidate our own pain by comparing it to someone else's. To stay in situations that are harmful - not because we can't leave, but because leaving feels harder than staying. To choose the familiar difficulty, the 'comfortable discomfort', over the unfamiliar one, without ever consciously naming it as a choice. Because here is the truth: everything is hard. Staying is hard. Leaving i...

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