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Why happiness can sometimes be a surprisingly challenging emotion

Why happiness can sometimes be a surprisingly challenging emotion

by Rachel | May 23, 2024 | Happiness, Anxiety, Counselling and therapy, Self-compassion

Happiness is weird. As an opening gambit this maybe falls short in profundity, but bear with me. As a therapist I do a lot of work with ‘uncomfortable’ emotions (the whole thing about there being no ‘bad’ emotions probably merits a separate blog in itself).  So...

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