# Feeling the Rawness

**Published by:** [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-07
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/feeling-the-rawness

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I’m told-and I agree-that I tend to over-intellectualize emotion. That tendency prevents, hinders, blocks the raw experience. When I catch myself doing that, it’s frustrating. It’s also scary because it feels like failure. It feels heavy in my shoulders, like “oh man, here’s another burden I have to carry around. Another thing I should be good at…but I’m not.” And sometimes, it hits me like a shock, emanating from my heart outwards. And that’s when I recognize, “wow, I’m sitting in it”…and then the experience is gone and the over-intellectualization begins again. Funny how the cycle works sometimes.

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