Therapeutic approach
What you resist, persists.
Feelings are not your enemies.
From the moment we are small, we are taught that some feelings are problems to be solved.
We learn to fight them, ignore them, distract ourselves, or numb them.
We are told to "be positive," to "get over it," to wage an exhausting war against the most tender parts of ourselves.
What if that fight is the very thing that is causing the pain?
What if the path to feeling better isn't to defeat your feelings, but to befriend them?
Rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):
The philosophy behind Feelit Folk is rooted in a simple idea from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): What you resist, persists.
The struggle against a heavy feeling feels like being caught in quicksand. The more you fight, the deeper you sink. The only way out is to relax, to spread your weight, to make space for the feeling to exist without letting it consume you.
A Folk is a tangible anchor for this practice. It is a physical object that helps you do three things:
Give Feelings a Form:
Folk is a physical representation of a difficult feeling that you can see, hear, touch, and smell.
Remove Judgment
Folk acts as a quiet witness, inviting you to notice a feeling with curiosity instead of criticism.
Make Space:
Folk reminds you that you are big enough to hold heavy feelings and helps you feel them without letting them take over.
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